[H-GEN] Tape drive usage

[Scott Pullen]

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The Linux System Adminstrators guide is a good place to start for sys 
admin info.  I gives an outline on backups in chapter 12.  The url is:

 http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/


Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Scott.


Patrick Nichols wrote:

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>Folks,
>
>I've finally procured a tape drive for work, and after all the wait can
>start doing nightly backups.
>
>I have enough capacity on a single tape to hold all the information off the
>server.
>
>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?
>
>I'm guessing using standard utilities is better than fancier ones, in that
>you can boot off just about any bootable linux cd and restore from that.  I
>don't want to have to reinvent the wheel, what does everyone else do?
>
>--
>Regards,
>Patrick.
>
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