Hi Carl
>So: are there any free (or cheap) backup programs for Linux, which by
>design support multivolume archives?
>
>(I kinda miss DOS. PKZip 2 would be perfect for my job, but
>unfortunately the InfoZip ZIP doesn't natively handle multivolume
>archives.)
You should consider RAR. It is ava
Carl Fink wrote:
> So: are there any free (or cheap) backup programs for Linux, which
> by design support multivolume archives?
Take a look at PerfectBACKUP. It's free and a cursory look indicates
that it is complete.
http://www.unisrc.com/
Paul Serice
> Someone will say "use tar" or "use afio" or "use dump". I might, but
> as far as I can tell none of those except tar inherently support
> removable disks (multiple volumes). Tar can do multivolume backups,
> but from what I've read if one sector on the disk is corrupted, you
> lose the whole ba
I've checked the packages via www.debian.org, but all the backup
packages there are aimed either at diskettes or tape drives. I have a
Zip drive, and don't want to purchase a tape drive. Conversely, I
don't want to backup a 1.2 gig drive to floppies.
The commercial packages like bru might do it
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