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From: vickde@vicstoy.uucp (Vick De Giorgio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Need help with backups, ISC 2.0.2/floppies
Keywords: backup, cpio
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.224030.1330@vicstoy.uucp>
Date: 27 Oct 90 22:40:30 GMT
Organization: The Philosophers Stone BBS, Orlando FL
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I am running a taiwan 386 box with ISC 2.0.2.

My problem is the lack of a tape drive. sysadm backup uses cpio, and
takes 10 minutes a floppy to 1.44 floppies.

My plan of attack was to put both /usr and /usr2 into /etc/save.d/except,
then backup / with sysadm backup, leaving /usr and /usr2 for tar, which
is much faster.

I edited /etc/save.d/except to remove the standard lines starting
with ^/usr/xxxx, and added the two lines

     ^/usr/
     ^/usr2/

This didn't work. sysadm backup still tries to backup everything in
/usr when I do a complete backup of root (I have small disks and didn't
make a separate /usr filesystem). As an alternative, I put lines in
/etc/save.d/except with the names of all subdirs off /usr. This didn't
work any better.

Anyone have any idea of what is going on? I really want to keep the
sysadm backup down to 5 or 6 floppies so I can use the much faster
tar for the rest of the system... =V=

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