On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 21:55:07 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>Dump is the method of choice on this end. =20
>
>The disadvantage of dump though is that it can be rather stupid on tape
>length and then you have to punch in the tape size manually.  However,
>when it comes to repairing a trashed partion there's no better method =
that
>I know of.  Tar doesn't catch everything like dump so I'd advise against
>tar.  Dump does is better and if you need compression there still are
>little dirty methods of making it work with gzip (haven't had the
>time/want to bother getting it fully working though with my TR-4 tape
>drive).

Can you point me to resources describing making it work with gzip
while keeping multivolume support.

A reason, that I rejected dump at first was, that at home I have only
a removable 135 MB harddisk to backup to. It does'nt have room for a
full backup of my system.

Anders