On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I just received a sony dds tape drive for our linux server and > now I would like to do backups of some data. > I have tried with tar but with little success; I can do a > tar cvf /dev/st0 /home and it seems to do the job. But I wasn't able to > recover a single file from the tape with tar xf /dev/st0 file_to_extract. > Could somebody help me with basics steps to backup? A howto > would be fine, if there is some! > Maybe there is a better way to do! Someone here? > I think you will be the best person to write the back-up howto. I always find that people do better when they do stuff they really need.
Hope you do I may need to use one soon :) /-------------------------------------------------------------------/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 1233 /-------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
