From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Feb 10 10:43:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEA437B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:43:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7818043FA3 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:43:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HA300DBPVYJNJ@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:35:48 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-188.acuson.com ([157.226.46.188]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R0KM3T; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:37:04 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:42:46 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: Zip Drive Backups In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20030208084734.00a931b0@pop.omah.uswest.net> To: WolfRyder , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <200302101042.46068.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030208084734.00a931b0@pop.omah.uswest.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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