>> As it stands, it's possible to backup to multiple floppy >> disks with tar, but these cannot be compressed during the >> archival process.
>Why not use tar twice: first with -zcf to make a compressed >archive and then with --multi-volume to write the archive >to floppy. Of course to retrieve it, you will also have >to use tar twice: first with --multi-volume to reconstruct >the archive and then with -cvf to unpack it. What result would you get with that method if you wanted to review the multiple archive's details with --> tar --multi-volume -tv --file=/dev/fd0 > backup.log -->? Not that much detail. Just that one big file. The tar backup routine I've described with your BasicLinux distribution barely took over six floppy disks, yet I still want to check out the results, or at least have them available. (And I've done just that -- I can review the results of that backup from a file that had the results directed to it while using the tar command above.) For quick backup of important files, though, I'm using the following script -- perhaps a little "busier" than it needs to be, but then I'm just a "linux-newbie"... ;-) ----------------------- cd /home mount /dev/fd0 /fd14 tar cvpf hot_backup.tar /etc /home /root /var/eznet gzip hot_backup.tar rm /fd14/hot_backup/hot_backup.tar.gz mv hot_backup.tar.gz /fd14/hot_backup umount /fd14 echo "***FINISHED***" ----------------------- This works nicely to backup all of my important files, which I can do much more frequently and easily than the full backup routine with tar. What's more, I can also view the results of this file under mc. This "hot_backup" routine created a tar/gzip file only about 132k in size. My rule of thumb is that, when my important file backup exceeds the size of a 1.44MB floppy disk, it's time to fully backup my system. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
