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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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