On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote:
hello there,
I just installed on my system a SCSI-2 Dat and have got a question
DAT's are cool :]
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 ?
tar, cpio, dump, Arkeia. My favorite is dump, but it can only be used on ext2 file systems (not on your Windows disk, too). tar is probably the most flexible, but can be archanly cumbersome. I understand that the people at SuSE like Arkeia, but I personally don't like it (too much fluff ;). I've played a bit with tar and my zip disk, and for the type of stuff that I do, it's not entirely bad. `tar -cIvf /dev/sda /home' makes a decent archive of /home on /dev/sda (my zip disk), but generates interesting errors ;). -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x121 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- 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/