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#! rnews 1663 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!usenet From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.unix.sco.misc Subject: Re: HP Autoloader Drivers - HELP!!!! Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 08:33:10 +0100 Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Lines: 12 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <308B4536.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <463fcj$pfq@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kestrel.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1N (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP12) To: johnb@epc.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:49569 comp.unix.admin:34058 comp.unix.bsd:16735 comp.unix.internals:9186 comp.unix.questions:71341 comp.unix.sys5.r4:10387 comp.sys.sun.admin:54997 comp.sys.sgi.admin:21088 comp.unix.sco.misc:7641 Try looking at GNU tar. This has an options for unloading and loading tapes. I back up 40GB of data every weekend although the previous poster was right that a better idea is to split up the backup. Then you will not loose all backups if things go wrong with the big one. Dave -- --------------------------------------------------------------- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/