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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Trouble with 'tar', tape archiver.
Keywords: cpio, tar
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.070824.6205@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 91 07:08:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.040951.2883@NCoast.ORG> <1991Jan19.212640.18364@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jan19.212640.18364@portia.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@elaine43.stanford.edu (Chin Fang) writes:
>In article <1991Jan19.040951.2883@NCoast.ORG> ramsey@NCoast.ORG (Cedric Ramsey) writes:

>> [ Problems using "tar cevfk /dev/rdsk/f0q15d 1200 /mnt/code" with ESIX ]

>I think for backing up to and from floppies, you are better off with the cpio
>utility because it senses backup media boundary
>As far as I know, not every tar does this. ESIX's? I think
>the answer is no too.

"tar cv /directory" does multi-volume backups fine under ESIX and
ISC.  Don't use all those other arguments.  Under ESIX, you need to
edit /etc/default/tar to make the 1.2 meg floppy "archive0"; ISC
2.0.2 ships with the 1.2 already set up as "archive0".
-- 
John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)