FW: Tape Backup Problem
... i'm using tar & smbtar on a Dell Poweredge (with SONY DDS3 tape drive)
running Debian 2.2.14 (potato) ... works very nicely ... tar's a great
little program & very useful for your shell scripts ... backing up several
gig with no problems, I'd stay away from GUI tape drive managers, there's
really no need for them
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Jacobsen [mailto:jjacobsen@jvlnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 4:52 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Problem
On 05/16/00, Robert Waldner addressed "Re: Tape Backup Problem":
> I had the same experience on kernel 2.0.38 with a HP DDS-2 when
> using taper and/or kbackup. Settled down for plain tar.
Plain tar is nice in some ways, but unless there's hardware
compression, using compression is risky. I've been using afio, which
allows you to compress file-by-file. Like tar, it fits nicely into
scripts, and creates reasonably accessible archives.
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