Re: [TCLUG:18622] I need a tape backup solution...

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>Then what about software??? Would I need something like BRU? could 
>some scripts be written to use CPIO (something else I have not used 
>yet).
	I use tar for my backups; because 
a. it was easy to learn
b. it will back up my SMB mounts (unlike dump)

cpio is probably a better program, tho. 
I've heard afio recommended over cpio; because it supposedly won't
lose the whole archive if one file becomes corrupted. (unlike tar or
cpio)
	from what the afio man page says, it's also a bit more
oriented towards doing backups; but I haven't really had a chance to
play with it.

>Since this is for my home network consisting of Win9x,NT,Mac and Linux
>boxes, I have found that Taper works well with samba mapped drive
>backups.  I have found them fairly reliable and easy to use.
	I had bad experiences with Taper under RH 6.0. it crashed
constantly; and the User Interface was not a significant improvement
over the command line. I took a couple of hours (and asked some
questions of the list), learned tar and cpio, and am much the happier
for it.

Carl Soderstrom
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