On Wed, 15 May 1996, Tom T. Thai wrote:

> am looking for an easy solution to backup and restore from DAT on 
> NetBSD.  If all the drive died, what is a good bootup floppy to prepare 
> to restore from tape?

I use cpio. After backing up, I verify using -tv and squirrel away the
file list that's created so that I can refer to it later to see if a
file I want is on a tape.

I don't have any special boot floppies; I just use the standard
install floppies. If something blows up, I just reinstall the base
kit. (Of course, I've got a half dozen machines here, so it's quite
fast for me to do a reinstall over the network.)

cjs

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