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From: david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU ("David J. Camp")
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Subject: Re: PC -> Unix backups???
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Date: 8 Nov 90 18:40:30 GMT
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In Reply to this Note From: <Harold Pritchett>
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>On Thu, 8 Nov 90 02:33:03 GMT David Paul Zimmerman said:
>>
>>I'm working on a scheme to do weekly backups of my administrative PCs' data.
>>Pros: It's simple and will be cheap to implement.  Cons: it uses 1:1 disk
>>space.
>>
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>It seems to me that the right solution here would be to use ZOO in place of
>TAR.EXE.  ZOO will provide the same function (package files together, retaining

I used to be a zoo aficionado until I learned about the public domain tar
program available in wuarchive:mirrors/msdos/filutl/tar.zip .  This will
do both tar and compress in one pass on MsDos.  Although I have not used
its compress facility much, the concept makes zoo rather obsolete.  I
have used the utility without compression, and it works fine.  -David-

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