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kempson@snowyowl.com (Niel Kempson) writes:

>In article <3k8t2p$egr@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
>    tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts) wrote ...

>> I use a Sankyo CP150 SCSI QIC150 drive in my PC.  I use GNU tar to
>> backup my HPFS and FAT partitions.  I also use GNU tar for Unix to
>> back up my Unix partitions.  A very flexible solution, although not
>> too hot on the ease-of-use front, though I suppose the invocation:
>> 
>> tape erase
>> tape rewind
>> tar cv2 d:\*.*

>Be careful, that last tar command will not back up the hidden files in
>the root directory of d:.  If you want to back up all of drive D: and
>preserve all of the file attributes, it's best to use the command:

>    tar --all-files --all-times cv2 d:/

>(assuming that "2" is your tape device number).

Thanks... I didn't know that.  Fortunately I haven't yet needed to
restore such sensitive files!

Tim.