[lug] OT: WAS: Tape Drives --- NOW: Emacs vs. vi !!! ;-)

Tue Oct 29 09:25:06 MST 2002

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 09:14, Rob Riggs wrote:
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> I've used BRU and it's a fine tool. But I would always choose GNU tar 
> for portable archives and dump/restore for system backups, while using 
> reliable tape technology.

I did what Rob suggested for a long time - until I found that BRU is
free for restoring files.  Now I also don't mind keeping BRU archives.

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