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[stefan.troeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stefan Troeger)]

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


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