From: romano@mercurio.iet.unipi.it (Romano Giannetti) Subject: Re: WHY WONT' "tar -cvMPZf/dev/fd1h1200" backup my HD? PLEASE PLEASE thanx Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 10:48:18 GMT
In article <C3sKz9.3G@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>, dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
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|> Try "tar -cvMZf /dev/fd1 ."
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Flame me if I am out-of-date, but I think that "Z" and "M" options do
not work *togheter*. This was because tar simply pipe the archive thru
"compress" or "gzip", and when the firt volume is full you get a "broken
pipe" or similar error.
By the way... is the idea of compressing a multi-volume backup safe? Just
*one* bit messed up, and you loose your backup.
Ciao,
Romano.
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