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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
- Subject: Re: tape backups
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:31:30 GMT
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- Corey Liss (cpl1@kimbark.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- : We've had some problems making tape backups of our NeXT server and
- : user directories using 'dump' and 'restore' (under 3.0)... Essentially,
- : 'restore' seems unable to read data 'dump'ed to tape, although it *can*
- : read data 'dump'ed to disk... 'tar' seems to work all right (but, of course,
- : you can't do an incremental 'tar'...). Has anyone else run into this problem?
- : Any suggestions?
- :
- Run to your nearest ftp site and get gnutar. It has options for doing
- things like -newer...
-
- If Userbackups are your big concern, look at TarChive on sonata. It
- uses gnutar, and writes log files, and it won't clobber someone elses tape
- left in the drive.
-
-
- : Also: Does anyone have any recommendations on a good DAT drive for use
- : with the NeXT, or good tape drives in general?
- :
-
- We have an Exabyte 8200, and a HP 35480A DAT. The exabyte isn't worth
- the powder it would take to blow to hell. The HP is wonderful. It just
- works, day after day after day.
-
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