From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: tar for "full" floppy backup? Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 08:36:23 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF30487.1829715E@ihug.co.nz> References: <200212070919.CAA12532@cu.imt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jerry James Haumberger Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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