From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!iuvax!dcm
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Title: tar for disk backups?
Article-I.D.: iuvax.258
Posted: Thu Sep 16 11:40:04 1982
Received: Fri Sep 17 02:56:33 1982

Has anyone developed scripts using tar to do disk
backups instead of dump/restor?  (If not, I might.)  
                                                     
Complaints with dump/restor:  slow, rewinds all the 
time, hard to restor a hierarchy.

David Menges, decvax!pur-ee!iuvax!dcm, Indiana U CS, (812) 335-0920.