Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!vtserf!creatures!csgrad!weimar From: weimar@csgrad.cs.vt.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Backup on Floppies Message-ID: <1321@creatures.cs.vt.edu> Date: 25 Jun 91 04:39:44 GMT Sender: usenet@creatures.cs.vt.edu Reply-To: weimar@csgrad.cs.vt.edu () Distribution: usa Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 12 The Question has probably been asked several times: How do people do backup on the slab (with floppies)? I just got the GNU tar (multivolume tar), but I couldn't get it to use multiple floppies. What filename do I use? ( /dev/fd0a ?? or /Disk or whatever the name is ) Thanks, Joerg. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-=+-+-+-+-+-=-+-+-+-=-=-+-+-+-+-+-+-=-+-+-=-=-+-+-=- Joerg R. Weimar weimar@vtcc1.cc.vt.edu ( Internet 128.173.4.10) Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech