backup howto needed!

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes <mario@curiango.ipen.br>]

Hi,

	I just received a sony dds tape drive for our linux server and
now I would like to do backups of some data.
	I have tried with tar but with little success; I can do a 
tar cvf /dev/st0 /home and it seems to do the job. But I wasn't able to
recover a single file from the tape with tar xf /dev/st0 file_to_extract.
	Could somebody help me with basics steps to backup? A howto 
would be fine, if there is some!
	Maybe there is a better way to do! Someone here?


[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes            "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
    IPEN-CNEN/SP                 is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario                 Prov. 19.21


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