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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!newsfeed.pitt.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!usenet@cs.cmu.edu From: Matthew White <mwhite@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help backing up system. Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 14:55:24 -0400 Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31D57C1C.41C67EA6@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu> References: <31D442EA.167EB0E7@halfdome.engr.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) michael white wrote: > > Sorry about this, but my mind is fried and I can't remember where any of this > information is kept. I want to back up my system. I have an iomega DITTO 420 > tape drive (uses formatted QIC 80 tapes) that is daisy chained in with my 2 > floppys. The system sees the device on bootup (I think it is ft0). Now what > I want to do is make a boot floppy with a kernel that will be able to see at > least my hard drives and the tape device, and a backup of my entire system (so > that if it crashes, I can restore everything). If anyone could spare the time > to help, I would appreciate it very much. Thanks a million. Hmmm...news server seems to be a bit sick. Okay, I tried answering before, so you may actually get a second reply to this once I get things worked out here. The essence of my previous post was 'man ft'. That should get you started. -Matt