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From: David K. Drum
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:00

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Hello again,
 
The Powers That Be are going to erase our home directories between
semesters, and since I have about 60MB of files to backup I would
like to make this simple as possible.  I have perused the manuals
for dump and restore, and would like to ask all you really
knowledgable people if I have the commands right.  I will be dumping
to HD floppy disks:
 
dump 0Of 1.39 /dev/rfd0a
restore rjvf /dev/rfd0a
 
I have a few concerns.  One, should I use NeXT formatted disks, or
can I use DOS formatted disks?  I would like to use DOS because there
is less file system overhead.  If I should use NeXT, what would the
correct O parameter be?  1.3?  Two, since I am not root, how can I
know that dump is only backing up my home directory and not everything?
Three, I am guessing that dump does no sort of compression; therefore,
might I be better off making a .tar.Z and somehow dumping that file
only?
 
If there are any better ways to do this (Opener, maybe?) please clue
me in!
 
Regards,
 
David K. Drum

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