i have a weekly cycle of tapes (full backup 7 days a week) and once a
month i swap out friday's tape. so this means i have two copies of
friday's tape, one on site in the cycle, and one off site.
i have never had to pull anything off of the older offsite tape, but now i
do, and i don't quite
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
i have a weekly cycle of tapes (full backup 7 days a week) and once a
month i swap out friday's tape. so this means i have two copies of
friday's tape, one on site in the cycle, and one off site.
What's special about a tape from a Friday? Did
I do a full dump every night of the week. ...
OK, then you should be in good shape.
I don't have the index files. Could you elaborate on the syntax. I am
using dump, not tar, and my archives are compressed. I am not sure what
you mean by $TAPE and i am a bit shaky on 'the-restore-program'.
