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From: scott@ukecc.UUCP (Scott Sendlein)
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Subject: Sys V Tape Backup Info Needed
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 09:46:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 09:46:15 1986
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I have an AT&T 3B20S and need info and recommendations regarding backup of
my system with tapes.  I am under the impression that the standard Sys V
tools are unsuitable.  Tar does not seem to work reliably, volcopy and dd
are wasteful, and cpio does not provide for multiple tape backups.  Cpio
would seem to me to be the most likely candidate for doing incrementals if
it weren't for the fact that it does not handle mult. tapes which means that
I must determine how much stuff in a particular system you can put on one tape.
This obviously could be handled with a little shell programming but I really 
hate re-inventing the wheel.  I have heard rumours that there is a program
called fcpio that stands for 'fixed-cpio' and is supposed to take care of this.
If so, where can I find it?  I would also appreciate recommendations as to the
frequency and nature of backups that others have been using.  (right now I am
doing monthly full backups to hard disk, I have 6 300 mb drives, but now my
user load is big enough to require at least weekly and possibly daily incr.)

Thank you,

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Scott Sendlein

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