On Sat, 22 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Yeah -- I don't keep downloads in there so I think my etc root and home
dirs would all fit on a floppy. But I'm not so concerned with that as much
as backing them up to tape, for now, from Windows until I can get a
complete backup system working in linux. I modified a backup script by
Michael Trausch and posted it in this thread. Working fine.
> 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.
I can't find "FI" -- what's that?
And what's the disctinction here with "raw device." ... as opposed to--?
Jamie
