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Re: What to do with a tape drive?



	Subject: What to do with a tape drive?
	Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:40:50AM +0100

In reply to:M.C. Vernon

Quoting M.C. Vernon(mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk):
> (Please CC all replies to me)
> 
> 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 ? 
> 
> and how do I do incremental backups and restores, please?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew

As a start try /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.gz

HTH

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