Re: using parralel port

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Fri Mar 16 2001 - 14:32:29 CET


On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:43:11AM +0100, Jef Knoors nicely wrote:
> Hello fellows,
> I need to backup a hard disk and used:
>
> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
> mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/temp
> cat /mnt/dos/* | gzip -c > /mnt/temp

replace "cat" with tar!

        # cd /mnt
        # tar -cf- dos | gzip -c > /mnt/temp/dos.tgz

Michele

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