Re: Backups

["Stephen J. Carpenter" <sjc@delphi.com>]

On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 11:22:29AM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
> Hi,
>    This is a bit off topic (and sorry I cannae answer any of your
> questions) ... Is tar ever used for backing up and if not why not .. if it
> is why is it not the defacto standard 
> 
> --Jonathan

Well...I use tar...

In fact I think tar is great..just last night after enabling super-user
rsh (if anyone is capable of getting past my firewall by obtaining 
physical acess to my network...then they can just steal toc omputer
forget cracking it ;) 

I did a 

tar clvf hal:/dev/st0 /  
and it proceded to backup fine. then I switched tapes on on hal did
tar cvlf /dev/st0 /

I love tar it works great...

-Steve

> 
> On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> > Hallo,
> > 
> > I have come to the conclusion that I cannot get reliable backups using
> > ftape and my Iomega Ditto 2Gb tape drive.  While trying out the latest
> > beta version of ftape, two of my tapes (one - 3.7 gig - was bought the day
> > before)  were rendered unusable. I am getting a CRC error in the header of
> > the tape.  Now not even NT or Dos software can use those tapes. That is
> > too expensive for me to try it out again. 
> > 
> > Now I have a few questions:
> > 
> > 1. Do commercial backup programs for Linux use ther own drivers or do they
> > rely on ftape?
> > 
> > 2. How reliable is the use of rewritable cd's for this purpose?
> > 
> > 3. Do other types of tape backup systems also have problems with
> > reliability in combination with ftape?
> > 
> > 4. Does anyone know whether it is possible to repair my tapes?
> > 
> > Johann 
> > 
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> Jonathan Lawson 
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> Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics 
> School of Mechanical Engineering, 
> Cranfield  University, 
> Cranfield, Bedford. UK.  
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