Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:51:15 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Veaceslav Revutchi <sl@dnt.md> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with tape backup needed Message-ID: <200001131851.NAA64120@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Veaceslav Revutchi <sl@dnt.md> of "Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:43:01 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001132030400.20466-100000@zeus.dnt.md>
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>I have an HP35480A (sa0) tape drive using 90m tapes and I have a number of >machines that I need to backup every night on this tape. Not whole >file systems, just separate trees on each machine. > >Is there a way to put tars of these trees on the same tape one after >the other and then access and recover them sequencialy? > >If I do for example: > >mt rewind >mt fsf 1 >tar cvz /bin >tar cvz /sbin > >tar xvz /dev/nrsa0 > >I would only be able to recover the last tar archive writen on the tape. >It seems like they are taped one over the other. Did you write to the no-rewind device name? You can continue down this road, but it's fraught with peril. I recommend amanda. See http://www.amanda.org -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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