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From: charles@teslab.lab.OZ (Charles Widepy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Multivolume cpio backups question
Summary: How do I use cpio to archive source files to more than one diskette?
Message-ID: <1257@teslab.lab.OZ>
Date: 29 May 91 12:06:07 GMT
Reply-To: charles@teslab.lab.oz.au (Charles Widepy)
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I'm sure this has been asked before. I didn't keep a note of the
answer because it seemed to be RTFM. Well I've searched for hours in
TFM and in other places, but I can't seem to find the answer.

I want to back up some source files to diskette. Unfortunately they
don't all fit on one diskette. I could manually split the list of
files input to cpio to create several backups, but I'm sure I heard
of a way for cpio to prompt for the next backup volume (diskette).

I would be most appreciative of any help.

CWW
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