[H-GEN] Linux backup tool of choice

Christopher Biggs listjunkie at pobox.com
Tue Apr 8 18:32:43 EDT 2003


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Stuart Longland <stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>
> What about tape drives that hang off floppy controllers?  o

AAAAARGHHHHH!

Bastard.   I had those neurons buried.

Stay the fsck *AWAY* from those barfulous kluges from hell.

> scrap-heap).  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.
>
If you used tar to write to tape, then do :

     mt -f /dev/ftape rewind
     tar xvf /dev/ftape

--cjb


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