... i'm using tar & smbtar on a Dell Poweredge (with SONY DDS3 tape drive) running Debian 2.2.14 (potato) ... works very nicely ... tar's a great little program & very useful for your shell scripts ... backing up several gig with no problems, I'd stay away from GUI tape drive managers, there's really no need for them
Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Jacobsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 4:52 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tape Backup Problem On 05/16/00, Robert Waldner addressed "Re: Tape Backup Problem": > I had the same experience on kernel 2.0.38 with a HP DDS-2 when > using taper and/or kbackup. Settled down for plain tar. Plain tar is nice in some ways, but unless there's hardware compression, using compression is risky. I've been using afio, which allows you to compress file-by-file. Like tar, it fits nicely into scripts, and creates reasonably accessible archives. -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace Lutheran Church (ELS) http://www.jvlnet.com/~jjacobsen/ Madison, Wisconsin GnuPG public key ID: 2E3EBF13 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null