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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
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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