hi francisco... hehehehee....arkeia was the "mistake"... if its not portable ??
dont know why people wanna pay $$$ for backup programs when tar is free have fun alvin donno if you are looking for a silly script or not... backing up to tape is no big deal .... nothing special -- trick is you have to know what device driver talk to your tape drive -- since you did not specify.... am gonna assume /dev/st0 -- am assuming you dont necessarily need to use the tape drive to -- backup the windows boxes ( the arkeia server/cleint thingie ) #!/bin/bash # # -- quickie code..... lets see # # # Assume you have a scsi tape drive # TAPE=/dev/st0 # # # Directories to backup to tape # DIR="/root /boot /etc /home" # # # Test if the tape whines... if it does...consider yourself ready to go # mt -f $TAPE rewind # if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo "" echo "Am guess your tape did not rewind..which /dev/xxx is it ???" exit 1 fi # # Do the backup to tape # i happen to like to compress things... # tar zcf $TAPE $DIR > /tmp/tape.backup.log # # # always eject to prevent overwriting the tape.. # cause you forgot to change the tape # mt -f $TAPE rewind mt -f $TAPE eject # # # end of file On Mon, 7 May 2001, francisco m . neto wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for some application which is able to do backups > os DDS tapes. Could somebody please appoint me to something that could > do that? > We're changing gradually our systems from RH to debian, and > the software we formerly used was Arkeia. >
