[H-GEN] Linux backup tool of choice

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Stuart Longland <stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org> writes:

> What about tape drives that hang off floppy controllers?  I've got a
> Colorado Jumbo 350 in my machine (recently acquired from a company
> scrap-heap).

Sorry, I have no idea about these apart from some general pointers on
where to look.

> tar and mt seem to work, and using tar -cvf /dev/ftape...  I'm able
> to back stuff up to tape, however, the problem lies when getting the
> stuff back off the tape.

Well, you used tar to get the data onto the tape; you should be able
to use it to get it off again.

As a last resort you could use dd (see my previous message) to read
files from the tape one by one and pipe those into whatever program
is needed to extract the data.

> Is there any tool, GUI, ncurses, commandline or otherwise that I can
> use?

GUI and/or ncurses backup tools?  Brrrr.  No thanks.
-- 
``I didn't program you for sarcasm.''

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