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From: donn@radar.UUCP (Donn S. Fishbein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Problems a/ux 1.0 - 1.1
Message-ID: <278@radar.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 89 16:21:24 GMT
References: <18900010@tippy>
Organization: CDS Consulting and MacInterested, Nashville, TN
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wmd@tippy.uucp writes:
>To back up the system on tape I boot the Mac OS and use the newest version
>of Tape Backup.  Problem is that upon booting, the 300 meg drive does not
>appear on the desktop (presumably because it has no Mac partition).  That
>in turn, prevents Tape Backup from recognizing its existance, therefore
>it doesn't display its partitions as being available for backup.

I agree that Tape Backup 2.0 is pretty inflexible. Probably your best bet
is to upgrade to A/UX 1.1, which supports the Apple tape unit directly.
You need to reconfigure the kernel as explained on the "tc" manual page,
and then you can access the unit from A/UX, using tar, cpio or whatever
to directly back up A/UX partitions. I realize this doesn't answer your
question directly but it may solve your problem.
-- 
Donn S. Fishbein, MD, PhD        ..killer!radar!donn