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From: renglish@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bob English)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Backups on various HP systems
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Message-ID: <1991Feb08.202427.15129@cello.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 20:24:27 GMT
References: <Feb.7.09.58.32.1991.19649@ringo.rutgers.edu> <13234@life.ai.mit.edu>
Reply-To: renglish@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bob English)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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In article <13234@life.ai.mit.edu> jailbait@ai.mit.edu writes:
|...is there [a backup program] that can
|run in the background and request input from the foreground when it needs
|a new tape?

Look up fbackup(1M) in the manual.  It should do what you want.  Among
other things, it will execute a program of your choice when it's time to
mount a new volume.

--bob--
renglish@hplabs.hp.com
I'm not sure HP has an official spokesperson.  I'm sure that I'm not one.