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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!super.zippo.com!zdc!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: DAT tape backups Date: 26 Mar 1997 17:26:55 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5hbm8v$mjb@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <5h78j1$ra5@newnews.onramp.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6464 mjeffers@host5.mpcshows.com (Mike Jeffers) wrote: > Hi! I'm looking into scheduling a cron job to back up my network to > an Exabyte 4gig DAT tape drive, and am wondering what the best > method for handling this is. I've surfed the WWW for a while and > have come across a few utilities that seem to fit my needs but was > wondering what are some of your opinions of the various utils. I don't know of any of the commercial tools available. Among the standard tools, dump(8)/restore(8) is still the best tool for regular backups. (This is a personal opinion, but a lot of people who've been looking into all these tools seem to share this opinion.) Remember that the entire X11 interface of anything is useless if you can't restore the data from within a fixit floppy. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j