Re: tar for "full" floppy backup?

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

At 08:08 PM 12/7/02 +0000, Rolf Edlund wrote:
>Originally to: Jerry James Haumberger
>
>
>  JH> The question remains:  How can I back up -- with tar or any other
>  JH> Slackware 3.5 program -- my 9 MBs of files from the BasicLinux
>  JH> console with multiple floppies?  And in compressed format?
>
>One of these commands..
>
>  # man tar
>  # info tar
>  # tar --help
>
>..will give you all information you need about your tar version.

"all" information? Hardly. Neither "man tar" nor "tar --help" gave *me* 
enough information to be able to answer his original question (though it 
did point me to the -M option, which I suggested trying), and my system 
(like many; it really has not caught on, despite pressure from the FSF 
crowd) does not even have the "info" system installed. (Does BasicLinux 
install it?)

FSF does have a tar tutorial available online 
(http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar-1.12/html_chapter/tar_toc.html), but even it 
doesn not answer the original question very clearly.

So this was almost a textbook example of a good question for this list ... 
one that needs more than RTFM answers, but a response (which it eventually 
elicited) from someone who could provide an example of how to do it.


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