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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!news.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to backup to floppy. Yes, floppy :-) Date: 23 Feb 1994 21:28:09 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2kghp9$b56@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2k5c10$2m1@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> <N> <1994Feb22.201005.29008@bcarh54a.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1994Feb22.201005.29008@bcarh54a.bnr.ca>, Bo Xiao <xiao@bcarh2c.bnr.ca> wrote: >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.) That's because it's GNU tar and has no manpage. But, it has multi-volume support and can be used. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.