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From: rmbyers@mag1.magmacom.com (Randy Byers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: DAT tape backups
Date: 28 Mar 1997 17:39:21 -0500
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We use BRU for all of our backup purposes here.  Works great under
BSDI.  It offers a fully-functional command line interface which 
means it's fully usable with cron, etc.

It has never let us down (can't say that for a couple of the drives
and tapes, though).

Randy