On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:

>Thank you.  I will try the tar command.  Does the command as you wrote it
>(thank you !) include the subdirectories?  That is if I wrote
>tar -cvf /dev/ht0 \
>will it backup everything (from root down)?

It will, if you get away from the MSDos standard, and use / instead of \.
Then you will be all fine.

Paul

>Thank you.

You're welcome.

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>> tar -cvf /dev/ht0 <directory to backup> <another directory>...

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