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>>>This whole backup-problem in our setup (our Unix-machines have all the
>>>needed devices) could very well leed us to use another's product which
>>>allows us to use the Unix-world for backup-purposes.
>>
>
>We do our backups by mounting the OS/2 drives on a SCO UNIX machine
>and running TAR under UNIX.  We found that we had to reduce the buffer
>sizes to 1024 bytes before it would work.  We didn't need to go as low
>as 512 bytes.  It's not quick though.  We are hoping to use an OS/2
>TAR with IBM TCP/IP's rexec or rsh as a better method for the backups.

If you are looking for a TAR to use with the TCP/IP rexec or rsh, get
the version of Gnu TAR included with the GTAK100.ZOO stuff.  It supports
long filenames, extended attributes, and comes with a COMPRESS, which it
can pipe its output through.

The "Other" version of GNU TAR may or may not support EAs, but it does
support long filenames, I believe.


____________
 Don Loflin
 Computation Center, 
 Univ. of Texas at Austin
 loflin@emx.utexas.edu