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From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Making a multi-volume backup to /dev/fd0 using tar
Date: 24 May 1996 08:27:13 +0200
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In article <4nsma9$5t1@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (PRC/IRDS) writes:

: 	I beleive doing this (tar -cvfM /dev/rfd0 *) will create a big
: tar file named "M".

Probably. The hyphen is superfluous(sp?), "tar cvfM /deV/rfd0 ."
should work fine. Do not use "*" unless you really don't want to save
your hidden (dot) files.

: 	tar -M -L 1440 -cvf /dev/fd0 *    (or some compfortable combonation)

Nah. That looks _ugly_! What's wrong with the calling syntax tar
always had?
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