backing up an entire unix/xenix system

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In article <201 at consult.UUCP> bob at consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) writes:
>In article <4 at icdi50.UUCP> steve at icdi50.UUCP (Steve M. Ciarciello) writes:
>>Does anybody know of a utility that will back up an entire disk drive to
>>streaming tape under SCO Xenix or Unix.
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>This is a common problem.  Using tar and the like will only give
>you mixed results.  You must be very careful.
>We have been using CTAR from MicroLite with EXCELLENT results.
>It does a complete backup of ALL files including character, fifo, etc.

To the best of my knowledge, so does GNU TAR. I just FTP'd a copy and
read most of the documentation and was rather impressed. From what I
understand, it will backup special files, device files and all the things
Xenix TAR will not. Additionally, you can have it compress/uncompress
on the fly as it is creating or restoring an archive. Pretty spiffy if
you ask me. And since it's free... need I say more? Check it out for
yourself and if I'm wrong... I apologize, but I think this is what the
documentation (incredibly lengthy, and in "tex" format which is completely
useless for me) says.

Good luck,

-- John

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