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> > Hi all, > > I recently attached a SCSI tape drive to my raid box running Debian. > It's a SONY Model: SDX-300C > > I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how to get > it working, backing up. > I had a look at Amanda, that looked very complicated for me ! > > Is there a simpler software package ? Try tar. When I first got my tape drive, I tried a lot of fancy graphical backup utilities: Perfect Backup, Arkeia, and others. But like you, my needs are simple. In the end I just wrote a shell script to call tar. It's completely adequate for my needs. Remember, the most important thing a tape drive can do is to protect you in case of catastrophe, i.e. hard disk crash. In that event, you may not have X working, you may be working in a very minimal environment after booting from a rescue disk. tar will be there for you, but will you be able to run Arkeia or Amanda? While we're on the subject, consider building a custom rescue CDROM. There are several of them out there. I followed and modified the instructions at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/RescueCD/, with good results. With one of these you can boot your system from CD and be in a good position to call tar to get your files back. Good luck! Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
