Best way to backup SCO Xenix/UNIX

[Fred Rump]

davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>In article <aris.670179095 at tabbs> aris at tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) writes:

>| I'd like to know the best way to do a backup so that I can recover from
>| a FULL crash i.e. having to re-install on a different machine from
>| a tape backup.  I'm sure there are lots of ways to do it, like using
>| the standard backup proggram SCO give you, but find it too inflexible.

        [long description deleted]

>Hope this isn't a lot more detail than you wanted!

        On the other hand you could simply pick up an inexpensive program 
        like CTAR that does all that for you nightly. When you first 
        install the program it makes rootable/bootable diskettes for you 
        and you could be off and running by either slipping a new disk 
        into a crashed system or taking everything to a different similar 
        system.
        
        We have this at all of our customer sites and even keep one set 
        of disks with us just in case the customer loses his.
        
        fr
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