Backing up two computers on one tape with UUCP

[Bill Campbell]

In article <1990Oct03.123829.5292 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
:In article <265 at twg.wimsey.bc.ca> bill at twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
:>  [ discussion of trying to use uucp to back up one system to another 
:>    systems tape drive deleted ]
:>
:
:Why not just develop your own home-grown serial file transfer mechanism
:that would allow you to do the following:
:
:	on your system with the disks, run the following command:
:
:		find..... | tar -cvf - | remotesend ttyaA system
:
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:Conor P. Cahill            (703)430-9247        Virtual Technologies, Inc.,
:uunet!virtech!cpcahil                           46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160
:                                                Sterling, VA 22170 

I played with this approach a little using kermit and it did work
albeit slowly.  I got the idea while reading the kermit
documentation and saw that it could use stdin and stdout for file
transfers.  I was going to use it to back up a Tandy 6000 file
system with about 140 Meg of data, but gave up when I didn't want
to tie up my 386's tape drive for the whole weekend :-)

Bill.


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