On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
>> There are also commercial programs which support Linux... ARCServe
>
>
Hey, I didn't say I was *endorsing* any of these commercial programs. :-)
Personally, I rate ARCserve somewhere slightly below "Maggot Puke" on my list
of things I like to work w
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> What I find interesting is that there is both an 'offline' command and a
> 'rewoffline' command. As if you could eject the tape without rewinding by
> using the 'offline' option, which isn't the case that I know of.
Well, it is theoretically possibl
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> There are also commercial programs which support Linux...
> ARCServe
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, mike ledoux wrote:
> I've taken the liberty of crossposting this to the main GNHLUG
> discussion list, as there may be others who are interested in this.
Most likely. Backups are usually the most neglected thing in a system.
:-)
>> I have a SCSI 20/40 DDS4 Seagate tap
In a message dated: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 14:07:07 EST
mike ledoux said:
>'mt' allows you to give control commands to a magnetic tape
>device. The most common commands are 'mt rewind', 'mt offline', and
>'mt erase'. 'mt rewind' and 'mt erase' do exactly what you'd
>expect. 'mt offline' rewinds and,
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Christopher M. Downs wrote:
> i have a 4 gig hp surestore tape 6000 in my linux box right now. i need to
> copy the entire drive as a whole if i can.
I've always liked GNU tar(1) for this. For example:
tar -cW --totals -f /dev/nst0 --exclude /proc --exclude /tmp /
T
dump level 0 works well. If you restore, you get everything back as well
as all original inodes too. :-)
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On Tue, 16 May 2000, "Christopher M. Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have a 4 gig hp surestore tape 6000 in my linux box right now.
> i need to copy the entire drive as a whole if i can.so if al hell
> breaks loose i can restore the enitire drive, is there a way to do
> this correctly? li
i have a 4 gig hp surestore tape 6000 in my linux box right now. i need to copy the
entire drive as a whole if i can.so if al hell breaks loose i can restore the enitire
drive, is there a way to do this correctly? like using dump or somnething?
thanks chris
