From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) Subject: Backing Up Linux Date: 7 Oct 1992 12:40:57 GMT
Doing a `tar -h` shows me that there's much more to the GNU tar than I
understand... It appears that GNU tar knows how to make multi-volume
'.tar' files and how to archive directly to disk, but *I* don't know how.
Where could I get some good documentation on GNU tar?
Do all these features work under Linux?
I'm thinking that with my meager 27 Megabyte Linux partition, and that only
fractionally filled at the moment, I might do an easy backup by doing:
tar -cvf - / | compress | tar -c[multi-disk options]
the first 'tar' being used to *collect* all the files,
and the second 'tar' being used to save the archive to
multiple floppies in a multi-volume sort of way. (?)
Will this work? Is there a better way? What about:
tar -cvz[multi-disk options] /
^ Does the "z" option work when *creating* such an archive?
Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
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