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From: "Eugene Radchenko" <genie@qsar.chem.msu.su>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Unattended backup
Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:34:38 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Moscow State University
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Hi!
Am I going to run into problems if I just put the cartridge in DAT drive
and call a script from crontab (around 3a.m. so as not to clash with
/etc/daily stuff). The script should rewind/clear a tape and execute dump
for the FSs I want saved.
Currently, all the necessary stuff fits on 4G cartridge quite nicely
several times again and takes about 15 minutes to be dumped. I guess I can
safely use level-0 dumps all the time. Do incremental backups serve other
purposes except saving time?
Thanks in advance Genie
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Eugene V. Radchenko Research associate, Computer Chemistry
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