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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: How to backup to a tapedrive on a Sun? rdump?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.001822.22867@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:18:22 GMT
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- Dick Silbar writes
- [rdump woes deleted.]
- >
- > If not, is there a way to set up the crontab to write a
- tar file to
- > the Sun's tapedrive?
-
- Run to your nearest archive site, and get gnutar. It
- allows things like:
- gnutar -cf sunflower:/dev/rmt12 ...
-
- The receiving host must have rmt. (also provided in the
- gnutar distribution) Compiling is straight forward.
- Latest release I know of is 1.10.
-