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From: jeremy@youngman.demon.co.uk (Jeremy Youngman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: BSD201 and SCSI tape drives for (bootable) backup
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 17:24:06 GMT
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Hi, I'm looking for advice about the best kind of
external SCSI tape drives for a BSD201 system on a
Compaq DeskPro Pentium PC - for taking system backups.
What I would like is a SCSI tape drive that can be
accessed having *just* booted off the two supplied
boot floppies without having to install any other
drivers (then I'd do a tar restore from the tape
of everything else).
Ideally, is there a way to make a "bootable tape"
so I just boot from floppy, point BSD201 at the
tape drive, and it does the rest? That may sound dumb,
but it is possible with some flavours of Unix like AIX.
Replies preferred via email if possible. TIA,
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