Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 12:50:47 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: brandon@cold.org (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting up backups (incremental)--what to use? Message-ID: <199701131150.AA094066248@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970110145302.3759B-100000@cold.org> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Jan 10, 97 02:55:47 pm
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E-mail message from Brandon Gillespie contained: > I have a tape drive setup off my system, and functioning (I can tar to it > and read from the tar without problem). I do not want an absolute tar > file every day, I want an incremental backup based off the previous day, > or something similar. How do I go about doing this? I noticed the > incremental option in the tar manual, but there is no explanation as to > what to do.. Help? man 8 dump man 8 restore much better than tar; it stores the filesystem extended metadata as well. /Marino > > Also... I need to figure out how large of a tar file my drive can > handle--it uses 8MM DAT tapes, but its an older drive, reporting as: > > ahc0:A:5: refuses syncronous negotiation. Using asyncronous transfers > (ahc0:5:0): "EXABYTE EXB-8200 2687" type 1 removable SCSI 1 > st0(ahc0:5:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x0, variable blocks, > write-enabled > > Anybody? > > -Brandon Gillespie > >
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