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From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Does anybody have a complete tar.Z file of filesystem?
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References: <wagner.985.728099462@main.mndly.umn.edu> <1993Jan29.161226.966@sci34hub.sci.com>
Date: 30 Jan 1993 19:04:14 UTC
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In article <1993Jan29.161226.966@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>Considering that tar doesn't handle the device entries in /dev/*, you're
>probably not going to find any such image.
It doesn't?
The reason I ask is because my backup program ('backflops') uses tar to
write compressed floppies (with other tools). If, someday for example,
my disk is hosed, I should hope I could restore the floppies. But since
the /dev entries are special files, what should I do about them? Switch
to 'cpio' for backups?
>Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
>The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
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