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From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo won't release rbak/wbak format.  grrr.
Message-ID: <27264@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 89 05:43:51 GMT
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Reply-To: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
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>Try this approach:
>wbak <target> -to <wbak.result> -l > <wbak.result.index>
>
>Then copy the <wbak.result> to be tar'ed, and you also
>have the artifact of the index in <wbak.result.index>


Hmmm ... That'd work, except that we usually don't have
enough disk space to do our backups to disk and then
copy them to tape.  Thanks anyway.

I think I'm going to switch to tar. wbak is just too
inconvenient in a mixed-OS environment.

Steve