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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!rutgers.rutgers.edu!news.columbia.edu!osiris.giss.nasa.gov!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: pschoen@gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul A. Schoenly) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tape backup scripts? Date: 12 Mar 1997 15:37:22 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5g6iji$hbg@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <3321E8B6.41C67EA6@foto.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: janus.gsfc.nasa.gov X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-16colors PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37015 Try tob (Tape Oriented Backup). It's at ftp.icce.rug.nl in pub/unix, I believe. It's a shell script for backups using tar, afio, maybe cpio. Tob comes with plenty of documentation, too. -Paul Schoenly pschoen@janus.gsfc.nasa.gov tom misiak (misiak@foto.infi.net) wrote: : hey all, : : I'm getting ready to buy a tape backup for my pc (probably : the Seagate TST8000) and was wondering if there are any scripts : somewhere that would allow me to automate the backup process. Actually : I'm not quite sure how to do it manually either, so any help would be : greatly appreciated. TIA, : : Tom Misiak : : btw, I'm running FreeBSD 2.1