[H-GEN] Linux backup tool of choice

Robert Stanford rob at rotapile.com
Thu Apr 10 18:22:22 EDT 2003


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On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 13:33, Stuart Longland wrote:

> True, a lot do rely on compression, I think the tapes this beast takes
> are actually 170MB uncompressed.
> 

If 170Mb capacity is all the tapes offer, you may as well backup to
cdrom.

 DATE=`date +%d%h%y`
mkisofs -V ${DATE} -R -f /home | cdrecord -v fs=6m dev=0,0,0 - \
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Robert Stanford <rob at rotapile.com>


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