[olug] ide tape backup: tar, baby

[Mat Caughron]

Hi there:

This is so obvious I must be missing something...  what about tar?

%man tar

NAME
     tar - tape archiver

SYNOPSIS
     tar [-]{crtux}[befhmopvwzHLPXZ014578] [archive] [blocksize] [-C
directory] [-s replstr ] file1 [file2...]

DESCRIPTION
    Tar is short for ``tape archiver'', so named for historical reasons; the
     tar program creates, adds files to, or extracts files from an archive
     file in tar format, called a tarfile.  A tarfile is often a magnetic
     tape, but can be a floppy diskette or any regular disk file.

EXAMPLES
     To create an archive on tape drive /dev/sa0 with a block size of 20
     blocks, containing files named bert and ernie, you can enter
           tar cfb /dev/sa0 20 bert ernie


etc.etc.

If its a driver-level issue you're thinking about, I'd start with "man
fstab".



Mat

P.S.  Did anyone catch the Uncle Remus allusion in the title of this
email?




On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, J Randall Wilson wrote:
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> Does anybody know of an open source ide tape backup solution
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> Randy
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