Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:25:17 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: tape backup newbie Message-ID: <20010904182517.C3750@iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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Hi all, I have reached a certain size limits on my backups and thus I am thinking about switching from CD-R backups to tape backups [unless I can confirm that a new dump version that can work with CDs will work on FreeBSD, but that's for another thread] I have been doing some research on this topic but there seem to be a lot of things that are taken for granted in almost every tutorial. They talk about tape backups as if you already have or know how tape backups work. Does any of you have good pointers to very basic tutorials or howtos that answer the kind of questions like: - can I use 1 tape to do several full backups one after the other? (suppose I have a 24GB tape and my full backups are 5-10GB) - likewise can I use 1 tape to do several incremental backups one after the other? - how are the dumps written to tape? Do I have to take care of naming the dump output files uniquely so as to identify them later? (is it clear that I have never used a tape before?) Thanks in advance, Fernan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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