RE: free backup tailored for removable disks
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 avaliable for Linux, supports
multi-volumes even better than zip (much like arj featurwise) and has
in general better compression that zip to boot...
Not sure where to find it, last time I just did a web search for rar
home page or something similar..
>Thanks.
>--
>Carl Fink carlf@dm.net
>"With some technology, you get the feeling that the designers weren't
>fully
>considering ease of use. With ISDN, you get the feeling that the
>designers
>hate your friggin' guts." -Scott Adams
>
>
>--
Cheers
Neilen
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E-Mail: Neilen Marais <brick@cryogen.com>
Date: 30-Nov-97
Time: 16:03:29
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