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From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:48:26 GMT
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paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes:
>Does anyone know of any software for UN*X, 386BSD or otherwise,
>that does on-the-fly compression? Thinking of looking into
>writing my own, or getting some 386BSD people together to help,
>as soon as I get my new machine built with enough HD space to
>re-compile 386BSD... This would be really nice for people with
>floppies, or even people who want to save on tapes.
GNU tar has a -z option. This compresses the tar file.
OR
You could use tar -cf - <directory> | compress | tar -cf -
(I think the second one should work, but if you have GNU tar use that.)
>I realize that this isn't the standard UN*X way to do backups,
>but a compressing dump program would be really useful to students.
>Dave Paoletti :)
Colin.
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Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
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