Useful information for network installers

Matthew Cronk slade at cs.utexas.edu
Mon Dec 3 15:00:10 AEST 1990



In article <1990Dec2.023618.16600 at odi.com>, Benson I. Margulies writes:
>  For reasons unknown to me, IBM dosen't document the trivial way to do
>  this. One just fsf's the release tape two files, and then restores it
>  into a temporary directory. The resulting directory can then be backed
>  up to a file.

speaking of trivial, you can avoid the restore/backup step like this:

dd if=/dev/rmt0.5 of=/tmp/poop bs=512 conv=sync

saves time and space...

Matt



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