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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:42:46 -0800
From:      Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
To:        WolfRyder <wolfryder@qwest.net>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Zip Drive Backups
Message-ID:  <200302101042.46068.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030208084734.00a931b0@pop.omah.uswest.net>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20030208084734.00a931b0@pop.omah.uswest.net>

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On Saturday 08 February 2003 07:02 am, WolfRyder wrote:

> The instructions I found for backup were for tape backup, not zip
> drive. Any suggestions? Any articles out there I missed (I'm sure
> there are and I just didn't know where to look for them)? The
> commands for tape backup don't work with zip drives (I tried them).

Most backup programs expect tape drives. A few newer ones let you use 
cdrw as well. But I don't know of any that let you backup to arbitrary 
media.

In any case, for "small" backup jobs like this, perhaps a simple script 
you write yourself would work best.

David

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