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RE: support for TR-4/QIC-3095 tape drive?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Boug)
Mon Nov 2 00:14:40 1998
From: "Greg Boug" <Greg.Boug@unico.com.au>
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:06:06 +1100
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Well, there is cron and tar :-)
In crontab:
0 2 * * * /usr/bin/tar cphf /dev/tapedevice /
should do it... :) You may want to check out the options to
tar first though... You will probably want other options...
(I'm also not sure if it will work across partitions/mounts...
Cheap solution, though :)
Greg
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Galpin [mailto:cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 3:31 PM
> To: "redhat-list@redhat.com"@smtp2.erols.com
> Subject: support for TR-4/QIC-3095 tape drive?
>
>
> Hi
>
> I picked up a Seagate TapeStor STT28000A ( ATAPI / 8GB compressed ) drive
> today. I'm hoping it was not a bad move.
>
> I'm looking for software to backup my Linux system and my Samba
> mounted PCs.
> I see BRU2000 is not free, and can't download a trial edition.
>
> I've looked at several things, ftape, taper, kbackup, but haven't
> seen any
> that say they support this format.
>
> Anyone using one of these with free or cheap backup software?
>
> TIA
> Charles
>
> -- Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
>
>
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