Hi all,
I have managed to install my tape drive ( Seagate travan 3200 on a floppy
controller ) and to have it work under Debian . I even managed to figure
out how to make the modules detect the new floppy controller ( not easy in
my case :-) ) . As far as I can see only taper exists for user friemdly
backup setup ( I need something user friendly at first ) . Is there
anything else ? Is taper stable and trustworthy ( always relatively ) ?
Is there a way to use taper to have backups through cron ( incremental
as well as total) ? Is there
another more straightforward way to pick directories, put them on tape and
then pick them out from the tape ? I guess tar could do that but is there
some documentation ? Taper can't start a backup child process when a user
is using it , only root manages that. However the user belongs to the
group disk which has the same permissions as the root for all the
/dev/*ft* devices and the taper program. What is problem ? Do i need to
give the user of the group permissions for some other files ? I know these
are alot of questions but if somebody could sort of answer any of them it
would be really helpful. Thanks in advance and sorry for the bother.
George
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George Kapetanios
Churchill College
Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html
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