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- From: paradis@sousa.ltn.dec.com (Jim Paradis)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Writing a driver for QIC-40, floppy controller tape drives
- Message-ID: <1408@sousa.ltn.dec.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 03:01:59 GMT
- References: <19mma1m.hasty@netcom.com>
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton, MA
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- hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
- : I know that sounds blasphemous but I am wondering if there is a dos
- : program capable of reading unix/file system which we can use to help us
- : backup our unix file systems. Currently, I have colorado tape drive
- : collecting dust and 300 MBs of binaries/sources. Not a pleasant scenario!
-
- Well, I have a Colorado tape drive too, and what I've done over the
- years on MINIX, Linux, and 386BSD has been to use mtools to copy the
- files I want backed up *to* a DOS partition, then I boot up DOS and
- use CMS' tape utility to put them on tape. To restore, reverse the
- process.
-
- Of course, this requires a nontrivial amount of free space on the
- DOS partition, but it's better than nothing.
-
- (ps - I'm also looking into writing a QIC-40 driver... don't know how
- I'll do, but we'll see....)
-
- --
- Jim Paradis (paradis@tallis.enet.dec.com)
- Working for DEC, speaking for myself.
-