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:

Where !/directorytobackup is the directory to backup, and !/dev/hdd is the LS120 device.

To restore from this backup:

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.