[H-GEN] Tape drive usage

[Tony Bilbrough]

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G'day Patrick,
Mark Suter posted a very clever web site on backing up. You would do well to
read it / understand it, before embarking on this adventure.

http://taobackup.com/

cheers Tony

Patrick Nichols wrote:
 Folks,
> 
> I've finally procured a tape drive for work, and after all the wait can
> start doing nightly backups.
Snip
> My question is, what is the best software to use?
> 
> How do I manage all the different tapes, and monitor usage of each one?
> 
> What software is already written to do all of this?


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