Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!csustan!polyslo!rducky!jrp From: jrp@rducky.UUCP (JIM PICKERING) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: 3B1/7300 backup Message-ID: <102@rducky.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 88 05:09:38 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Rubber Ducky, Assoc., Arroyo Grande, Ca. Lines: 32 Keywords: UA, floppy diskettes If you are as paranoid as I am about a hard disk crash on your 3B1 or 7300, you probably backup up your machine frequently using floppy disks. I happen to use the UA 'floppy' command for its convenience. Since it is such a pain to load floppy after floppy for a backup (please Santa bring me a tape drive), I generally only backup up my personal account. Unfortunately the UA backup command for an individual user neglects to tell you how many disks you will need. After not having enough disks to do this, I found an easy fix. It was easy to implement as you can see. Note that the number of floppy disks is only an approximate of the number that will actually be needed. Fix: From rn, say "| patch -d /usr/bin", if you are reading news as root (which is pretty stupid). Outside of rn and as root, say "cd /usr/bin; patch message -cu "Insert the floppy disk to be used for this backup. The floppy disk MUST be formatted. If you do not have any formatted floppy disks, please press Cancel." -- Jim Pickering || (n) ..csustan!polyslo!rducky!jrp 265 Spruce St., Apt. H || (s) ..sdsu!polyslo!rducky!jrp Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 || ..polyslo!northway!rducky!jrp (805) 473-1037 || jrp@rducky.UUCP