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From: ktl@wag240.caltech.edu (Kian-Tat Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Network backup suggesstions?
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Date: 2 Jan 90 20:11:11 GMT
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In-reply-to: pwolfe@kailand.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe)

In the referenced article, pwolfe@kailand (Patrick Wolfe) writes:

>Try GNU tar.

for backing up our 4D/240 over an Ethernet to a 9-track tape drive.
This turns out to be an excellent solution.  If anyone wants the minor
fixes I needed to make to get GNU tar up and running under Irix 3.1F,
send me E-mail.

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Kian-Tat Lim (ktl@wagvax.caltech.edu, KTL @ CITCHEM.BITNET, GEnie: K.LIM1)