Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:15:02 -0600 (CST) From: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net> To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best way to back up? Message-ID: <199702240315.VAA02748@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> In-Reply-To: <199702240228.VAA03134@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at Feb 23, 97 09:28:53 pm
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> > I am curious as to what the "best" way is to back up to a 8mm tape on a > different machine. I have found that (for me) tar seems to be the easiest > to use, however, I can't get it to do an incremental backup, and it seems to > choke on some of the "special" files in /dev. dump/rdump let you me do > differential backups, but I can only do one per tape? > > -- > David Cross > ACS Consultant Huh? Go to the no-rewind device, and set the tape "size" to a rediculously large number so it never runs out (unless it really does get an "end of media"). We do this all the time, and our regular incremental tapes (run to a DLT) typically have 30-40 savesets on them. Before the 8505 Exabytes (7gig native) got to be too small we used to run these to 8mm; now we go to DLT 30G cartridges, but the only thing that changed was the target. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 99 Analog numbers, 77 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal
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