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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? 

Here it is, and of course it's another sparkling gem from the  
Workspace of none other than Varun Mitroo!! 

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In comp.sys.next.misc article  
<1992Jan27.163306.27612@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  
mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) wrote:
> as backup media and convenience goes,
> it's hard to do better than optical.  Here's the script I run as  
root every
> couple of weeks for backups:
>
>   cd /
>   tar cvf - LocalLibrary | compress > /$1/LocalLibrary.tar.Z
>   tar cvf - LocalApps | compress > /$1/LocalApps.tar.Z
>   tar cvf - Users | compress > /$1/Users.tar.Z
>   cd /usr
>   tar cvf - local | compress > /$1/usr_local.tar.Z
>
> It takes a couple of hours an creates a complete backup of my cube  
nicely
> on one optical disk.

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