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From: alanp@soda.berkeley.edu (Alan Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Compressed backup programs?
Date: 26 Jul 1993 06:38:52 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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I have been wanting to backup my 386bsd system but since I don't have a tape
drive, it is quite a bother.  Using dump would take ~120 1.44MB floppies to
backup all of my filesystems.  Is there any program that can write a backup
to floppies that can compress the data, so I dont have to feed my machine
hundreds of floppies?  I hoped GNU tar would do it, but it doesn't.  It can
write multi-volume tar's or compressed tar's but not compressed multi-volume
tar's.


thanks.

Alan Pearson
alanp@soda.berkeley.edu / alanp@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu