Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:55:47 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: setting up backups (incremental)--what to use? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970110145302.3759B-100000@cold.org>
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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? 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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