Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Behan Webster wrote: Dale Martin wrote: 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This means one backup (full, differential, or incremental) per disk, yes? I haven't looked too hard yet - hacking the script to tar to a filesystem can't be that hard,

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

Andy Kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i've never seen TOB, but regarding tar'ing directly to a device: you can do multiple tar's to device (e.g., tape device). to do this, let's say you already tar'd once. to do it again, but append it to the first one, you need to forward past the first one.

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted about this and received no replies. I thought I'd report back about what I wound up doing... What you're doing looks pretty cool. I was looking in to backing up my /home (which isn't too big) onto a Zip disk. I was checking out TOB (tape

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

- What you're doing looks pretty cool. I was looking in to backing up - my /home (which isn't too big) onto a Zip disk. I was checking out - TOB (tape oriented backup), but there are a couple of things that bug - me about it. - - 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

Dale Martin wrote: 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This means one backup (full, differential, or incremental) per disk, yes? I haven't looked too hard yet - hacking the script to tar to a filesystem can't be that hard, though. Nope. Tob allows you to put multiple