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From: hedrick@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: archiving on Unix?
Message-ID: <8810@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1-Feb-87 13:59:57 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  1 13:59:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Feb-87 22:41:28 EST
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Does anyone know of an archiving system similar to TOPS-20's?  We'd
like users to be able to say "archive <filenames>" and have them
moved to tapes automatically.  Then we'd like them to be able to say
"retrieve <filenames>" and have them come back.  Presumably it
would be easy enough to write a program that would append a request
to a file and then have a shell script read the file and create
a script that invoked tar or something.  (Indeed we already have
a "retrieve" command that does just this, to issue retrieve requests
against our old TOPS-20 archive tapes.)  But I'd like to avoid
reinventing known technology.