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Re: Backup with DAT SCSI tapes



Oz Dror <dror@netcom.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am having problems using taper as the backup program for my DAT SCSI tape.
> It seems that taper cannot handle the large amount of data.
> it generates very large info files and then crushes. Incremental backup
> is also not working well.
> 
> I have tried the hamm and bo version of taper.
> 
> Is there any other GOOD stable backup program that can work with SCSI DAT
> tapes?

I use "dump" to backup 2Gb partitions on an HP DAT unit.  It comes
with with a very good man page which describes how to stagger the tape
backups.  Note that the latest versions in unstable don't seem to work
well with the latest e2fsprogs; use the versions in stable:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
hi  e2fsprogs       1.10-2         The EXT2 file system utilities.
hi  dump            0.3-14         Ported 4.4BSD dump and restore utilities.


> 
> -Thanks
> Oz
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> EMAIL  dror@netcom.com                     <<Linux  since 8/15/94>>
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> 


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