I use dump and a shell script for my Linux box, tar for the Win98 partition, and smbtar for the two Win95 partitions on my wife's networked PC. They aren't pretty (no GUI), run reliably from the command line (my Linux box is backed up with a cron job), and when I have had to restore a file, it was always there. I tried Arkeia. It looks like just what I needed. I never figured out its tape rotation strategy and it always was asking for more tapes than I had, though a full, uncompressed backup fills less than one tape. It did not support IDE tape drives directly. SCSI emulation on IDE drives was less than perfect (backups ran, but there were errors/warnings in syslog). When I needed to restore two files, it ran for half an hour and then announced that it couldn't restore them, no explanation or hints why or how to work around. It was out of here. Convenience and a pretty interface are nice if the product is functional. With SCSI drives, YMMV. Jeffrey Quoting Didier Gasser-Morlay <didierg@visualgroup.com>:
hello there,
I just installed on my system a SCSI-2 Dat and have got a question
What do people generally use to make backups. Tar could be easier (ao at least I am not familiar with it) and I could not find any graphical front end to it. any other suggestions ?
I also found the following: I could be wrong but I believe that there are a couple of typos in the Suse 6.3 manual (page 275, section 11.8) regarding the mt utility.
1. every example state a -d parameter for the device while the man page states -f instead. 2. the example given to space the tape to the end of the recorded data reads as follows mt -d /dev/nst0 eof according 6to the man page (& my own experience) this WRITES an EOF mark at the current location on the tape. the man page documents two other means (the difference between those two is not clear to me) use either mt -f /dev/nst0 eom (goto end of recorded media) or mt -f /dev/nst0 eod (goto end of data)
didier
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