M.C. Vernon wrote:
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> (Please CC all replies to me)
Hope that reply-to is correct...
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> Hi,
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> I've just installed a new tape drive, but I can find no
> documentation on how to use it. Do I just write cron jobs to
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> tar -zcvf {files} /dev/sct0 ?
More like 'tar -zcvf /dev/sct0 {files}'
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> and how do I do incremental backups and restores, please?
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Read the tar documentation. -G or -g options, I believe.
There's some good documentation in the Ftape howto, which you should
have down in /usr/doc/HOWTO. Make sure you do rescue diskettes, too
(check out YARD, for instance).
Would be nice if we had a generic backup howto, wouldn't it? Not that
I'm volunteering... ;-)
