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From: xiao@bcarh2c.bnr.ca (Bo Xiao)
Subject: Re: How to backup to floppy. Yes, floppy :-)
Message-ID: <1994Feb22.201005.29008@bcarh54a.bnr.ca>
Sender: xiao@bcarh2c (Bo Xiao)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 20:10:05 GMT
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In article <2k5c10$2m1@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>, u8123555@cc.nctu.edu.tw (I-Fei Tsai) writes:
|> Hi:
|> 	Is there anybody can tell me how to backup (or dump ... etc)
|> 	my 386BSD (/dev/wd0a) onto floppies (/dev/fd0a) .

I believe tar is the best candidate for doing such. Unfortunately, most
versions of tar do not deal with multivolumn(floppies). There is a bar
in SunOS handles multivolumn. And I correct? (I can not find the man pages
for tar on my FreeBSD 1.0.2.)

Bo
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