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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!usenet From: Trien le <trien@mei.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Backup on floppies Date: 9 Aug 1995 18:04:27 GMT Organization: Marquette Electronics, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <40atbb$fgd@news.moneng.mei.com> References: <3v528i$7sc@raffles.technet.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: le.moneng.mei.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b3 (Windows; I; 16bit) Yes, you can back up from floppy. I'm currently using (I'm a newbbie) BSD/OS 2.0. 1. Format your floppy using. %fdformat /dev/rfd0 floppy (for 3.5 fp) 2. backup your file to the floppy using: %tar cvf /dev/rfd0 /dir/name where /dir/name is any directory you want to backup 3. to recover files from the floppy using %tar xvf /dev/rfd0 , this should restore any files you backed up. Hope it helps.