Creating a tar backup onto LS120 laser servo diskettes
These notes are about using raw tar backups on LS120 laser servo diskettes.
To backup to LS120 diskettes:
- cd /directorytobackup tar -cv -L 123264 -M -f /dev/hdd .
Where !/directorytobackup is the directory to backup, and !/dev/hdd is the LS120 device.
To restore from this backup:
- cd /directorytorestore tar -xv -L 123264 -M -f /dev/hdd .
Where /directorytorestore is the directory to restore to, and /dev/hdd is the LS120 device.
The bzip2 option cannot be used with multivolume backups
The --bzip2 option cannot be used on on multivolume (-M) backups. When a multivolume backup is used, the --gzip option should be used instead.