Hi all,
A lot of you will remember my previous message about a GUI for backing up
volumes on a machine. Anyhow, here's part II of that question.
Now that I know how to backup using tar and mt, I need to know what's
good to use. I do know that if tar finds a bad sector on the tape,
everything after that point is lost, so that's not very good.
I am using EXABYTE data quality 112 meter tapes (5 GB). Not I have the
choice of using the following utilities:
dump
dd
tar
cpio
Other utilities that probably shipped with DU 3.2c.
Now most if not all of you run backups (I hope), and so you probably have
nightmare stories of what to and what not to use. Your comments will be
appreciated.
Sincerely
Santosh Krishnan
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Received on Wed Jan 08 1997 - 19:02:46 NZDT