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From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc
Subject: Re: backup program for xenix?
Message-ID: <2137@ispi.COM>
Date: 17 Feb 91 16:06:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb17.065756.14535@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
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gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:

>is there a pd/freely copyable backup program that will work on xenix?
>backup to floppy, that is.
>is there a better way than tar+split+cp to floppy?
>i just want to do strait complete file backups. i also would like
>a reasonable ability to recover from floppy disk errors.
>error correction would be good, but at least having errors wipe out
>only one file rather then the rest of the set would be nice.

>gwoho liu.

Yes.  Use the sysadmin script.  Only problem is that it doesn't do any
error recovery if the floppy is bad.


JB
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