From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 13:55:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA05432 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from cold.org (glacier.cold.org [206.81.134.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA05426 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by cold.org (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id OAA03768 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:55:47 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:55:47 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: setting up backups (incremental)--what to use? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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