On Fri, 21 May 1999, JF wrote:
>
> > My old Windows registry couldn't fit on a floppy disk! With UNIX,
I've
> > got MORE settings to adjust, yet, I can fit all my configuration
files
> > onto a floppy disk in a .tar.gz'd file. Heh.
>
> I'd be interested to know how you do this. Can you specify all of your
> config files by just using .*rc and *.conf and *rc ? I decided that,
until
> I get backup working that I can tar archive all my home and root and
etc
> dirs copy them to a dir that windows can see, backup from there, and
that
> would pretty much do it. I need to figure out how to write a scipt to
do
> this. So far I'm doing it manually.
Not all ccconfig files are named .conf, I think. Why not just take the
whole of /etc, so:
tar -c[v]zf <tarfile> /etc /home /root
I would have to weed down /home and /root to fit all this on a floppy,
but I have been accumulating stuff there for years. Maybe you don't
have so much.
You can use FI /dev/fd0 as a tarfile, but I recommend instead make a
filesystem on the floppy, and tar to a file on it. If you access a
floppy as a raw device, there is no provision to skip or recover from
bad blocks.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> thanks again!
> Jamie Faunt
>
>
>
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