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From: fks@vaxeline.COM (Frances Selkirk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: PC full backup/restore via ftp???
Summary: tar with compress
Keywords: backup pc ftp
Message-ID: <1328@vaxeline.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 91 00:31:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.122449.7695@intellistor.com>
Reply-To: fks@ftp.com (Frances Selkirk)
Organization: FTP Software, Inc.
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What you want is a tar program with compression. Tar programs are
included with our PC/TCP and Sun's Lifeline (a PC-NFS option package).
(I don't know whether or not tar is implemented in Beame & Whiteside's
package, or in Wollongong's, or in...)  I don't know whether or not
Sun's tar can compress files - ours does. When writing to a tape, our
tar uses rsh or rexec to execute mt on the remote system, but it can
also write to a file on the remote machine. I imagine other
implementations are similar.


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