Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott McDermott) wrote: > >I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a > >disk. > > Do you even need to set the size? I find this works pretty well: > > % tar cvMf /dev/fd0 * > > and at the other end: > > % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 > > Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble > with this.
Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!).... --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339 voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion." - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
