From: ichi@ihug.co.nz
To: Jerry James Haumberger <jerryjh@imt.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tar for "full" floppy backup?
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 08:36:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF30487.1829715E@ihug.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200212070919.CAA12532@cu.imt.net
Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>
> 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?
It would be possible to create a compressed archive and
then split it into floppy-sized chunks. Like this:
-------------------------------------------
tar -zcvf - /usr | split - -C 1440k floppy.
-------------------------------------------
This will give you floppy.aa, floppy.ab, floppy.ac, etc.
You could write a script around that to copy the files
(for i in floppy.*) to floppies (prompt, mount, copy,
umount).
To reverse the process, use cat instead of split.
Cheers,
Steven
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-08 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-07 9:24 tar for "full" floppy backup? Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-07 18:34 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-07 20:08 ` Rolf Edlund
2002-12-08 16:05 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-12-09 7:32 ` ichi
2002-12-11 18:12 ` Rolf Edlund
2002-12-08 8:36 ` ichi [this message]
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2002-12-09 7:00 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-09 10:32 ` dashielljt
2002-12-08 18:38 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-09 8:10 ` ichi
2002-12-08 21:07 ` dashielljt
2002-12-09 18:11 ` ichi
2002-12-09 10:16 ` dashielljt
2002-12-09 12:38 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-12-07 16:58 Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-12-08 8:41 ` ichi
2002-12-07 20:03 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-08 2:10 ` whitnl73
2002-12-06 21:47 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-06 22:25 ` dashielljt
2002-12-06 22:26 ` dashielljt
2002-12-06 23:35 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-07 0:10 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-12-07 0:53 ` dashielljt
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