Hi, Jamie,
I thinks there is some misunderstanding. ftape is only a
driver. It gives you the possibility to access an floppy
controller driven tape. The applications to do backups,
restore data and more are not the issue of ftape.
>
> 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.
>
> Peace,
> Jamie
>
Every Unix/Linux contains at least tar and cpio.
Try tar cvf /dev/ftape <some files or directories>
and tar will back these files up and create an archive on
your tape. Think of this as a shortcut to your approach.
cpio has a comparable functionality but is more stream
oriented in it's design.
There are more programs as backup frontends out there, I have
heard of BRU, taper, .... Since two or three weeks I have
success using arkeia. This is from Knox software and a home
use licence is distributed by SuSE and RedHat. It comes with
a nice X-Frontend. It seems to be stable and reliable.
> ...
>
Martin
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