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I just pickup a nice internal DAT drive, does anyone have any recommendation on what software to use for system backup/recovery? I just want to know if there is something ...
  1. 10-17-2006 #1
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    Talking Tape Utility?

    I just pickup a nice internal DAT drive, does anyone have any recommendation on what software to use for system backup/recovery? I just want to know if there is something better than KDat? Possibly command line scripts? Thanx!
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    I dont know if anyone cares but I found a program called Taper that seems pretty good so far. =)
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    Hi.

    Although I keep my tape drives around, I don't use them much these days.

    In our Solaris shop we used the BSD dump utility. It knew the ins and outs of the filesystem, so it was fast, although not particularly user-friendly. Years ago, in our Cray shop we used a locally-written front-end for dump. It allowed the users to request reloads without undue stress on the operators.

    In looking at the Debian repository, I see almost 100 hits for "backup", and I know some can deal with tapes. Recently I downloaded MondoRescue, but I have not yet tried it out.

    Let us know what you finally choose ... cheers, drl
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    Good oul tar? tape archive

    I've seen it handle ridiculously large and complicated backups to tape.
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    I know you can use tar. If tar then can it be scheduled using a sort of AT command? It looks like it now to find the correct syntax...
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    Is there a switch using TAR that changes compression or defines tape size or length that isnt listed? I get an out of space error after using tar to the scsi tape drive at about 12gb the drive is a dat 20/40 using 150m tapes. Input appreciated!

    btw I cant get KDat to even reconize that there is a device /dev/st0.
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