Re: backup howto needed!
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?
>
I think you will be the best person to write the back-up howto. I always
find that people do better when they do stuff they really need.
Hope you do I may need to use one soon :)
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