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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: More questions about 386BSD...
Date: 23 Sep 1992 12:42:08 GMT
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In article <1992Sep23.040721.4834@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>, rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes:
>  2. Now that I just about have everything installed the way I want it,
> it is time to figure out how to back the system up. I looked through
> the FAQ, but I could not find any info on how to back up the system
> to multiple floppy disks (3.5in 1.44M). I assume you would use something
> like tar or cpio, but it needs to be broken up across the disks 
> (similar to the distrution stuff, but on UNIX formatted floppies).

% man dump
except that dump recently told me it wanted about eighty floppies to dump one
of my four filesystems at which point I decided not to make a backup and wait
till I am able to afford a tape drive :-S

-Bernard
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