On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Joi Ellis wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: > [snip] > > >>... mt is missing from my system. Before I > >>reinstalled 2.4.2 the second time, due to it not installing over 2.4.1p1 > >>cleanly the first time, I used turbopkg to remove 'amanda, amanda-client, > >>amanda-server and taper' all listed under a broader heading of 'System - > >>Backup'. Do you know which of these removed mt as well? ... > > > [snip] > >If I had to guess, it would be "taper". I would have thought what > >Amanda calls taper would be part of amanda-server. > > On my Red Hat systems, mt is provided by its own RPM. It isn't bundled > with amanda. mt is not in 6.2's taper package, either. Taper is a completely different little backup program. I tried it some ages ago and dropped it immediately as it seems it couldn't handle very large backups (I don't remember wheather it was data size or the amount of files but anyway). It shouldn't have anything to do with mt, tar or amanda (except that it *maybe* uses mt..).
