Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Backups Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 02:30:58 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 31 System: 4/300 SparcServer (4/380) running 4.1.1 We currently are using 5.5+ GB of data with total diskspace of nearly 10GB. 6+ MB of this is on a remote system. We have one 8mm Exebyte tape drive and 1/4" cartridge tape drive. I would like to limit the backups to only the 8mm drive. My question is what would be automate the backups? At this point, I am running shell scripts which dump until end of tape at which point I end up switching tapes and start the next script which HAS to start at the last partition which reached end of tape. This seems like a great waste of time and tape, etc. Please respond to jc@raven.bu.edu and feel free to mention both hardware and software (and prices please!) Thanks! jc -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)