I got a couple of questions about using ftape.
1. Is there any good, non-gui front ends to afio, tar, etc that I can use
to select, backup, and restore files? Ideally something that I could use on
a rescue disk to recover from a disaster, or perhaps if I delete the wrong
user, along with the accompanying home directory, I could recreate the
user, and restore the home directory easily.
2. Do I really need to worry about vtblc at all, to make successfull
backups? I don't know the least about changing more than descriptions in
the volume table, as most values, like the begin and end segments of a
backup are hard to determine, does tar take care of it when I use tar czfp
/dev/tape . from the root directory? Can I update/delete files out of the
backup set, like /proc I got that I don't want on the backup? I figured
running the whole system backup is easiest, as debian 2.2 on CD isn't out,
I must use kernel 2.2x or higher and probably not test kernels. My tape
drive works with no more parameters than insmod ftape, what debian fills in
makes module installation fail, though, so I don't know how to initialize
it on boot, or does another module need to be loaded in modconf first?
Something with parm or something, invalid parameter, yet insmod ftape at
the prompt works fine, although I'm likely to forget to do it, and start
sending my whole system as a tar archive to a not configured device.
