Subject: RE: Help with tar to tape?
From: James Zuelow (jamesz@ideafamilies.org)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 15:21:03 AKDT
> -----Original Message-----
> Jim Dory
> I'm trying to backup a server to a tape connected to the scsi port,
> using tar. I'm just getting my feet wet with this, no previous
> experience. I did a "ln -sf /dev/st0 /dev/tape" so I could remember.
>
FWIW, I would suggest using afio. Tar is great, but if you lose part of a
backup set you lose the whole thing. Afio backs up file by file, which is a
little safer. (At least in my experience tapes tend to generate bad spots
fairly often.) The syntax for afio is very similar to tar, and not hard to
pick up. I use afio in a shell script to mount samba shares and back up
Win9x boxes to tape.
Cheers,
James
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