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From: MARK@ardsley.business.uwo.ca (Mark_Bramwell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: backup: tar vs cpio?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 18:22:20 GMT
Organization: Western Business School
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Message-ID: <MARK.822.2D6F935C@ardsley.business.uwo.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: home-pc2.business.uwo.ca

I have a 4mm dat drive.  I would like to backup the system.

Currently I am doing this from root....


tar cvf /dev/rst0 *


Is there a reason that I should be doing something else?

I want a backup that I can use for individual files as well as a full system 
restore.

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