Re: What to do with a tape drive?

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

M.C. Vernon wrote:
> 
> (Please CC all replies to me)
Hope that reply-to is correct...
> 
> Hi,
> 
>         I've just installed a new tape drive, but I can find no
> documentation on how to use it. Do I just write cron jobs to
> 
> tar -zcvf {files} /dev/sct0 ?

More like 'tar -zcvf /dev/sct0 {files}'
> 
> and how do I do incremental backups and restores, please?
> 
Read the tar documentation.  -G or -g options, I believe.

There's some good documentation in the Ftape howto, which you should
have down in /usr/doc/HOWTO.  Make sure you do rescue diskettes, too
(check out YARD, for instance).

Would be nice if we had a generic backup howto, wouldn't it?  Not that
I'm volunteering...  ;-)