On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:08:02 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_W=FCrtele?= writes: >On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:55:14PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> afbackup doesn=B4t only have troubles with dds3 drives, I never coould >> get it to cooperate with my HP C15533A DDS2 drive, also. IIRC the >> error was quite the same (can´t be sure, though, that´s almost 2 >> years ago). > >okay, so any suggestions for another backup software? taper from potato only >supports tapes up to 4 gb :-(
well, as I have only a DDS2-drive that´s not a problem for me ;-) but tar should be able to cope with larger tapes, although you may want to keep every volume just below 2 GB, so you can safely copy it to disk should the need arise (and it will, trust me). karsten m. self has a backup-script here: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html and I did some tweaking, the result of which can be found at: http://gfrastsackl.org/scripts/ , to have it fit my needs. tar has some media-spanning - option, which you could use to keep the backup-files below 2 GB. cheers, &rw -- -- AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking bus with hundreds -- of ebola victims on board throwing dead wombats and -- rotten cabbage at the other cars. -- ASR about "Information Superhighway" analogy ----
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