From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry James Haumberger Subject: tar for "full" floppy backup? Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200212070919.CAA12532@cu.imt.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hello everyone -- Thank you for offering me various suggestions on how to possibly get tar to make a backup archive on multiple floppies. Sorry to say, none of the suggestions worked. The only result was that tar would make an archive in whatever directory I happened to be in when creating the archive -- and it would ignore the /dev/fd0 device. When I used the "M" option, nothing occurred. When I tried adding the "z" option, I was told that multiple compressed archives were not possible. When I try to use the Slackware manual command (SAMS), it messes up the floppy -- which has to be reformatted and so on. The question remains: How can I back up -- with tar or any other Slackware 3.5 program -- my 9 MBs of files from the BasicLinux console with multiple floppies? And in compressed format? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs