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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
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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