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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!alanp 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 Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <22vu5s$t29@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu 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