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Re: DAT tape



GBV said on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:18:38PM -0300:
> I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server...
> 
> How i can mount?

You don't mount tapes.  Instead, you use tools (like tar) to pull
archives off of them.  From the operating systems perspective, the tape
is just a file (/dev/nst0, for example).

> How i can use cron to make backups?

You can write a small shell script using find and tar, and then run it
out of cron.  However...

> There an frontend backup soft?

AMANDA might be more of what you're looking for.  It's not exactly
"frontend", but it's _really_ good.  Look for the packages
amanda-client, amanda-server, and you can read documentation at
http://amanda.org.

M


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