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From: slade@cs.utexas.edu (Matthew Cronk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Useful information for network installers
Message-ID: <36@gobi.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 04:00:10 GMT
References: <1990Dec2.023618.16600@odi.com>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <1990Dec2.023618.16600@odi.com>, Benson I. Margulies writes:
>  For reasons unknown to me, IBM dosen't document the trivial way to do
>  this. One just fsf's the release tape two files, and then restores it
>  into a temporary directory. The resulting directory can then be backed
>  up to a file.

speaking of trivial, you can avoid the restore/backup step like this:

dd if=/dev/rmt0.5 of=/tmp/poop bs=512 conv=sync

saves time and space...

Matt