"Darren R. Weber" wrote:
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?
IIRC kdat write other information to the tape and that could be the cause of your problems, you may need to position the tape correctly before you can use tar. /Michael -- 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/