Multivolume cpio backups question

Charles Widepy charles at teslab.lab.OZ
Wed May 29 22:06:07 AEST 1991


I'm sure this has been asked before. I didn't keep a note of the
answer because it seemed to be RTFM. Well I've searched for hours in
TFM and in other places, but I can't seem to find the answer.

I want to back up some source files to diskette. Unfortunately they
don't all fit on one diskette. I could manually split the list of
files input to cpio to create several backups, but I'm sure I heard
of a way for cpio to prompt for the next backup volume (diskette).

I would be most appreciative of any help.

CWW
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