From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 4 16: 7:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from melete.ch.intel.com (melete.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594FD155A6 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by melete.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.6 1998/11/24 22:10:56 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id XAA19181 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:04:36 GMT Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.8 1999/04/16 15:25:49 steved Exp steved $) with ESMTP id QAA18772 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:04:59 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-To: X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id TAA24010; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:05:04 -0400 (EDT) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14329.12959.621354.82477@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:05:03 -0700 (MST) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: new port to try out -- flexbackup X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message