Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-13 Thread Dale Martin
Andy Kahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've never seen TOB, but regarding tar'ing directly to a device: > you can do multiple tar's to device (e.g., tape device). to do > this, let's say you already tar'd once. to do it again, but append > it to the first one, you need to forward past the first

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-12 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Behan Webster wrote: > Dale Martin wrote: > > > > 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This means one > > backup (full, differential, or incremental) per disk, yes? I haven't > > looked too hard yet - hacking the script to tar to a filesystem can't > > be

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-12 Thread Behan Webster
Dale Martin wrote: > > 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This means one > backup (full, differential, or incremental) per disk, yes? I haven't > looked too hard yet - hacking the script to tar to a filesystem can't > be that hard, though. Nope. Tob allows you to put multip

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-12 Thread Andy Kahn
-> What you're doing looks pretty cool. I was looking in to backing up -> my /home (which isn't too big) onto a Zip disk. I was checking out -> TOB (tape oriented backup), but there are a couple of things that bug -> me about it. -> -> 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. Thi

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-12 Thread Dale Martin
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I posted about this and received no replies. I thought I'd report back > about what I wound up doing... What you're doing looks pretty cool. I was looking in to backing up my /home (which isn't too big) onto a Zip disk. I was checking out TOB (t