Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:08:25 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ast0: TAPE <OnStream DI-30> Message-ID: <200102020808.JAA74472@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <5.0.1.4.0.20010201213224.02e8e2e0@marble.sentex.ca> from Mike Tancsa at "Feb 1, 2001 09:41:29 pm"
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It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: > >tar cvbf 64 /dev/rast0 bla bla.... > > Thanks, yes it does work with 64, the one multiple I did not try. why is it always that way :) > >I have a drive here that onstream sent me back when with docs, but to be > >brutally honest the drive and especially the firmaware sucks.. > > Yes, I figure it was a "cheap" drive in every sense. I was hoping that it > could act as a sort of backup to a backup. For my important servers, we > have dat drives, and for others where the situation makes sense, we use > rsync with ssh to dump the data onto big cheap IDE drives on another > server. I was looking for a way to periodically backup these IDE drives > and was hoping the Onstream drives would do the trick. We have had way too > many bad travan tapes so we dont want to go with them. I thought I would > give the onstream a try to see how it did. Well, as I said, supporting it is not impossible, its just "different" from the way most *ix drivers like things. However if this is important to you or somebody else, I could be persuaded into looking at this... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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