[SLE] how to backup to multiple floppys
Hi Folkss Need to back up some files. Whats the simplest standard way of backing up and compressing files across several floppys ? Tar / gzip ? Man pages show nothing on spaning over several floppys? Hos is this done under linux ? I have a complete dir I want to back up and another dir with two big tar files. Thanks Samy -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Mon, May 01 2000 at 15:45 +0000, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Need to back up some files. Whats the simplest standard way of backing up and compressing files across several floppys ?
Tar / gzip ? Man pages show nothing on spaning over several floppys?
Hos is this done under linux ?
There are several ways: Tar does have multi-volume capabilities (option -M), but IIRC they cannot be used with gzipped archives. If you want to stick with tar.gz, you can create an archive the ordinary way and split it into pieces with split. The disatvantage is, that you have to concatenate the pieces before extracting the archive, i.e. it has to be copied to your harddisk first. Afio, OTOH can write and read multi-volume archives right to/from floppy disks. You might also want to have a look at zip and zipsplit or rar (www.rarsoft.com). Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Hi Folkss
Need to back up some files. Whats the simplest standard way of backing up and compressing files across several floppys ?
Tar / gzip ? Man pages show nothing on spaning over several floppys?
I got a simple utility from the sunsite archives called "pak" ################################################### DESCRIPTION: Pak is a very simple archiving program to store and extract files from a multi-volume archive. The volume size can be set to any value (multiple of 1024 bytes) from the command line. It is useful to transfer files from different platforms with floppy-disks. USAGE: pak [command] <option> archive name <input files> Command: c, create a new archive e, extract all files from a volume l, list the contents of an archive DESCRIPTION: Pak is a very simple archiving program to store and extract files from a multi-volume archive. The volume size can be set to any value (multiple of 1024 bytes) from the command line. It is useful to transfer files from different platforms with floppy-disks. USAGE: pak [command] <option> archive name <input files> Command: c, create a new archive e, extract all files from a volume l, list the contents of an archive -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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