From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 10:53:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA21341 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 10:53:24 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA21333 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 10:53:13 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20295; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:52:17 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA16615; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:52:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA15049; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:23:51 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506021723.TAA15049@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Backing up on Exabyte 8MM Tape ?? To: john@pyromania.apana.org.au (John Herks) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 19:23:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199506020123.LAA05717@pyromania.apana.org.au> from "John Herks" at Jun 2, 95 11:23:38 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 653 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As John Herks wrote: > > > What is the correct format for backing up and restoring (a directory > tree) on a Exabyte tape drive ??? > > Do I use tar or mt ? The pro's and con's of tar vs. dump/restore have been discussed here recently. You've got the choice between tar, cpio and pax on the one hand, and dump/restore on the other. If you are adventurous, you can also make something like a backup with dd. :-) I hardly doubt you could make anything roughly comparable with a backup using ``mt''. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)