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- From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
- Subject: The backup problem (was Re: tar won't do multi-volume archives)
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:49:34 GMT
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- Among the DOS utilities I gave up in order to run Linux was 'FastBack'.
- This is a program which does multi-volume compressed backups in a hurry,
- and it puts of the day one has to give in and replace the 3.5" diskette
- with a tape drive.
-
- Tar doesn't support this feature. Among all the contributors to Linux,
- has anyone solved the backup problem using any technology which can be
- had for <US$300? Byte for byte, tape drives are more expensive than disk,
- and worse, tape media and formats have diverged wildly in recent years.
-
- My current idea is to just buy a big disk drive and leave a scratch
- area on it for holding compressed filesystem images which can then be
- dumped to diskettes. (Or even copied by modem to a remote system.)
-
- -rich
-