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From: mike@pyrdc.UUCP (Mike Whitman)
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Subject: Re: UNIX tape backup utilities (ex. Ubackup from Unitech, Autoreel, etc.)
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Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 19:48:41 EDT
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Summary: format for Ubackup dumps
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In article <15702@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw) writes:
> I got one response back, and it was a favorable review of Ubackup.  I think
> Ubackup does most of what you ask for, but it uses tar format -- which I
> infer to mean that it has tar's pathname limit of 100 characters, and that's
> not acceptable in my environment (some of our users love deep trees AND
> long nodenames).

I am using Ubackup right now to do dumps on my machine and it uses either/or
tar/cpio  you get to pick which you wish to use. Rumors are of Unitech comming
out with an ANSI tape version as well giving you 3 choices to use. All in all
a good package.

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