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? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/
"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/
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At 19:36 on 31 Dec 99, Darren R. Weber begun to yabber about "[SLE]
kdat unreliable"
From: "Darren R. Weber"
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 Matthew King: Sys Admin, Quakers Hill High School. My ICQ#: 2342475 Message me! Cellular Phone: +61 415 257 516 E-Mail: noodle@penguinpowered.com Homepage: http://www.penguinpowered.com/~noodle/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d+ s: a--- C++++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E---- W++ N++ o++ K w O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5++++ X++ R+ tv++ b+++ DI+++++ D++ G+++ e* h* r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- 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/
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 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/
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