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Re: Good way to tar my linux part to a mounted dos part
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Sat Nov 16 15:05:59 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 15:03:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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Your best bet is to send a copy of the output of the df command, and to
say what kind of (tape I presume) back up system you have. Then, people
can make intelligent suggestions.
-sen
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Craig Hoffman wrote:
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 14:33:20 -0500 (EST)
> From: Craig Hoffman <infinity@gdi.net>
> Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Good way to tar my linux part to a mounted dos part
> Resent-Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 14:35:43 -0500
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>
> I'd like to backup my linux partition using tar, but there are
> Sooo many command line options. Essentially, what I want to happen is to
> tar all the files on the Linux partition except for a dir called /dos
> (which resides off the root dir - Its my mounted Win95 partition). I'd
> like for it to write the file to /dos/filename.tar.gz (I dont think I have
> enough space left on the Linux partition to back it up, so I want to stick
> it on the mounted dos partition).
>
> Thanks..
>
> Craig...
> infinity@gdi.net
>
>
>
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