[LUAU] CD backup w/dump

[Gary Sublett]

Scott

As Chris mentioned the ftape HOWTO is an excellent resource for floppy
controller type QIC drives.  Other possibilities are:

        SCSI DAT drives - more expensive up front but more economical from the
        media standpoint compared to TRAVAN.

        True IDE type tape drives such as the HP 8 or 5gig are plug it in and
        go.

        Front end software - BRU 2000 personal edition is worth looking at, is
        included in a number of commercial distro's such as RedHat and Caldera -
        don't know about SUSE.

On 06-Jan-99 Scott Cooley wrote:
> I've been playing with the dump/restore package and it's pretty cool.  I
> need to do offsite backups for someone's linux box, and up until now i was
> doing a tar.gz of the system written to an ext2 fs on a CD.  Obviously
> this isn't the best method.  Has anyone tried using dump to dump a fs to
> CD instead of tape?  Or if not, what type of tape drives are generally
> accepted by linux?  I have a DittoMax 7gb parallel but i'm sure those are
> too proprietary to use with linux...?
> 
> thanks,
> scott

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E-Mail: Gary Sublett <gsublett at lava.net>
Date: 06-Jan-99
Time: 13:03:01

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