Question #143229 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/143229
Jean-Peer Lorenz posted a new comment: Hi Jeff, thanks for answering this question. You're absolutely right. Currently only disks and remote shares are supported. However, sbackup uses TAR internally which is able to write to tape drives directly. Unfortunately, I've no knowledge of using tape drives with TAR nor a drive available for some tests. I guess it should be sufficient to adapt some of TAR's commandline options (generated by sbackup; sbackup is more or less a wrapper script around TAR) to get tape support into sbackup. Any help in this regard, e.g. a shell script which shows basic steps to get TAR working with a tape drive, would be highly appreciated. > :todo: Think about a plugins system that will be used to export on TAPE, on > DVD and so on. There are a bunch of more important things to do before a DVD export plugin should/could be implemented. Moreover, I think it's not that important to be able to burn disc directly from sbackup. Proper archive splitting should do it. A 'tape export' shouldn't be necessary since TAR is able to handle tape drives though we'd need help to implement it. Best regards. jean-peer (maintainer/developer). -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
