Re: [SLE] kdat unreliable

On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Matthew King wrote:

Hi.

At 19:36 on 31 Dec 99, Darren R. Weber begun to yabber about "[SLE] kdat unreliable"

From: "Darren R. Weber" Send reply to: drw@linuxfan.com To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date sent: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 19:36:36 -0500 Subject: [SLE] kdat unreliable

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Maybe it's jus me, but I have a dat drive and I'm trying to make regular backups of my system. I thought it would be nice to use kdat because of the interface but it seems to be very unreliable. It apears to use tar to do the backup, but when I do a restore test on single files I can't seem to extract them using tar. Am I the only one with this problem? I have a shel script written by a friend that does great backups and I'm thinking of rewriting it and using it. Is it needed? Is kdat as bad as I think it is or am I doing something wrong?

I too have also noticed the unreliability of Kdat.. I could make good backups, but when i attempted to restore them with Kdat they would not work, instead they would restore files that were not related to the archive i was working on. I belive that the version i was using may have had a bug in it's multi archive system. I stoped using it and just use TAR and rsh now :)

Cya Matthew

Thanks for the reply. I thought I was just going nuts. I also decided to just go with tar. I can use a simple script to back things up and then normal commands to restore things. The GUI is nice, but sometimes the old simple command line tools are still the best. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw@linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/