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.