Re: [OT] scsi tape problems
Hi all
I couldn't locate the following url
http://gfrastsackl.org/scripts/
Is it correct?
Tks
regards
Peter
Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:08:02 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_W=FCrtele?= writes:
> >On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:55:14PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> >> afbackup doesn=B4t only have troubles with dds3 drives, I never coould
> >> get it to cooperate with my HP C15533A DDS2 drive, also. IIRC the
> >> error was quite the same (can愒 be sure, though, that愀 almost 2
> >> years ago).
> >
> >okay, so any suggestions for another backup software? taper from potato only
> >supports tapes up to 4 gb :-(
>
> well, as I have only a DDS2-drive that愀 not a problem for me ;-)
>
> but tar should be able to cope with larger tapes, although you may want
> to keep every volume just below 2 GB, so you can safely copy it to disk
> should the need arise (and it will, trust me).
>
> karsten m. self has a backup-script here:
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
> and I did some tweaking, the result of which can be found at:
> http://gfrastsackl.org/scripts/ , to have it fit my needs.
>
> tar has some media-spanning - option, which you could use to keep the
> backup-files below 2 GB.
>
> cheers,
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