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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:05:03 -0700 (MST)
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   new port to try out -- flexbackup
Message-ID:  <14329.12959.621354.82477@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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Hello all,

For those of you with tape backup units, please try out a new port of some
software called "flexbackup." A friend of mine wrote it and I've contributed
patches along with making the FreeBSD port. You can find a FreeBSD package 
and port shar (submitted but not yet committed to the ports tree! ... 
ports/14108 hint hint, wink wink) at (current version is 0.9.6)

  http://members.home.com/edwinh/flexbackup/

In essence it's a huge perl script that automates using dump, afio, cpio, or
even zip to archive things onto tape. It also helps retreiving listings from
non-dump(8) archives and plans are in the works for a restore-like interface
(and hopefully GTK+ if he gets the time to learn how ;) for other archive
formats such as afio/cpio/zip (will work like dump/restore with an interactive
"shell"). It can also automate doing archives over a network via rsh or ssh. I
highly recommend its use.

-Jr

ps: I don't have all dependencies for the "package" correct. If you wish to use
external buffering you'll need to install the "buffer" port. Same goes for
afio. The "port" shar does have these dependencies correct, however.

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