Re: backup howto needed!

1998-03-20 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: I just received a sony dds tape drive for our linux server and now I would like to do backups of some data. I have tried with tar but with little success; I can do a tar cvf /dev/st0 /home and it seems to do the job. But I

Re: backup howto needed!

1998-03-20 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I just received a sony dds tape drive for our linux server and now I would like to do backups of some data. I have tried with tar but with little success; I can do a tar cvf /dev/st0 /home and it seems to do the job. But

backup howto needed!

1998-03-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I just received a sony dds tape drive for our linux server and now I would like to do backups of some data. I have tried with tar but with little success; I can do a tar cvf /dev/st0 /home and it seems to do the job. But I wasn't able to recover a single file from the tape

Re: backup howto needed!

1998-03-19 Thread dpk
I would use the 'dump' program to do tape backups. (Found in 'utils' section) It has a interactive tool called 'restore'. Once installed the documentation under /usr/doc for it will get you going. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering