Thanks to the following people who responded:
Clegg, Larry
John Cajas
Degerness, Mandell
Stan Horwitz
Stott, Trevor
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
(I have attached Alan's response below)
The Question Was:
What is the best method to archive specific files to
DLT tape?
The (Short) Answer is:
tar or cpio, since vdump doesn't archive specific
files (only filesets and subdirectories).
ALAN'S E-MAIL FOLLOWS:
From: alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
The manual page from V4.0D suggests that vdump can do
subdirectories, but not individual files. The other
significant limitation of vdump is that it uses an
on-media format that can only be read by vdump. That
doesn't make it very portable.
Tar or cpio should be readable by a large number of
other instances of tar or cpio. Which of those to
use may be as much a matter of personal taste as a
matter of capability.
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Received on Thu Feb 01 2001 - 21:19:48 NZDT