Re: backup howto needed!
I would use the 'dump' program to do tape backups. (Found in 'utils' section)
It has a interactive tool called 'restore'. Once installed the documentation
under /usr/doc for it will get you going.
Dennis
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> 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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