From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: tar for "full" floppy backup? Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 18:11:15 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF4DCC3.95931C1@ihug.co.nz> References: <200212081837.LAA15273@cu.imt.net> <3DF44FE9.69FB5E4D@ihug.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: dashielljt Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org dashielljt wrote: > > I've never tried this and have never heard of > any success with this idea either. I do not see the problem. It is easy to create a compressed archive file (let's call it backup.tgz). Tar happily tars a single file, so why can't it tar backup.tgz (multi-volume)? 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