[lug] Tape Drives

[Nick Golder]

I would suggest taking a look at Amanda.  It combines the advantages of
both tar and dump.  It also offers some great remote backup features. 

Using tar or dump can become a holy war (and it will if you give it
long enough ;o)

Both tar and dump have their differing strengths and weaknesses and in
the end, it depends on the function of your backups.
-Nick

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:22:44PM +0000, j davis wrote:
> 
> 
> >BRU looks nice.  But GNU tar is _very_ reliable and Free as in Freedom.
> >
> >The invocation to use would be something like:
> >
> >  tar -cvf /dev/st0  /etc/ /var/www /home /var/spool/mail
> >
> >where you'd substitute "/dev/st0" for your particular device.  After
> >creating an archive on the tape, run:
> >
> >  tar -tvf /dev/st0
> >
> >to get a list of the contents.
> 
> 
> Why do you suggest tar instead of dump/restore?
> and is ther a easy way to do incremental backups
> using tar?
> 
> Thanks,
> jd
> 
> 
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