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From: phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX tape backup
Message-ID: <7580@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 7 Mar 88 19:58:44 GMT
References: <8659@allegra.UUCP> <76000127@uiucdcsp> <7447@apple.UUCP> <4128@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: phil@apple.UUCP (Phil Ronzone)
Organization: Ungermann-Bass Enterprises
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In article <4128@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Our Mac-II is ethernetted to a Sun with both cartridge and 6520 BPI
>magtape anyway.  The more serious problem is that they left *dump* and
>*restore* off the Unix distribution!  We have to do backups with tar,
>which doesn't support incremental backups.

Actually, we did have dump, restore, rdump and rrestore in there, but found a
really nasty set of bugs just before freezing the production master. So, we
yanked them. Almost, but not quite ...  Sorry about that! :-)

For incrementals, we like find & cpio.

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