From: Douglas W Murray (doug@owl.isis.org)
Date: 07/29/92


From: doug@owl.isis.org (Douglas W Murray)
Subject: Backing up to diskettes
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:45:24 GMT

Hi all... Me again...

Has anyone been able to do a multivolume tar format backup to diskettes?
I tried it tonight but I wasnt at the end of the first diskette that
TAR got to the /dev directory and hung there. I presume that the hang
is due to the backup of the /dev files, but this didnt allow me to test
the multi-volume situation.

Could anyone enlighten me on how to go about in doing backups to t
diskettes (preferably with TAR) but I do think that (if memory serves
me right) only cpio is capable of backing up device files.

Any thoughts on this?

Doug!