On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> The ftape HOWTO tells about installing and what kinds of drives are out
> there, which is good, but what are the commands I type on the command line
> to save and read from the tape drive? As a quickstart I put whatever I
> want to archive in a gzipped tarball in temp and then write it to
> /dev/tape using dd, but I have this sinking feeling I'm underexploiting my
> equipment by doing it this way.
I know what you are talking about. I struggled a bit with the HOW-TO's
and other stuff. Now I am a little bit comfortable. I too wish someone
will write a simple quickstart. The HOWTO section on testing the drive is
closer to a quickstart though.
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Daniel J. Mashao
Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel
Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469
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