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Re: backing up to OD

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From: Paul Verket
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1992 21:46
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In article <Apr.3.11.40.59.1992.26375@remus.rutgers.edu>  
trott@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Trott) writes:

> A while back someone posted a recipe to backup his entire
> drive to  a single compressed tarfile on his Optical
> Drive.  does anyone still have that recipe? 
> 
I didn't see that but here's what I use. In a terminal window, as root, I  
enter:
dump 0uf - /dev/rsd0a | compress >/HomeBackup/910616-level0.dump.Z

HomeBackup is an optical disk and I name the file to correspond to the backup  
date.

Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)
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