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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs 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 Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <19pon0INNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <1992Sep23.040721.4834@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net 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 -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV