[Gllug] [OTish] SureStore DAT24

[Martin A. Brooks]

At 14:28 08/07/2003, you wrote:
>I can cat a file to and from /dev/st0 quite happily, I can do a 'mt -f
>/dev/st0 erase' and it erases the tape fine. When I try a 'tar cvpf /dev/st0
>/mnt/mp3' however, I get the following:

Writing stuff directly to tape is nice, but it's not a backup system.  You 
need to be able to schedule backups and reap the space saving benefits of 
incremental or differential backups.  Plus you also want to an index of 
what was backed up when and to which tape.

Take a look at AMANDA.


Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/ 


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