Re: Backup & Recovery

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Hello again,

I've tried tar --help, but I can't figure out what exactly I need to do,

perhaps a little more details may help,

the K220 is named "sugar" and the linux pc "linux"

the tape drive on the K220 is on device file /dev/rmt/0m

how would I back up say "/home" on "linux" onto the tape drive on
"sugar"?

I'm much better with examples....

thanks for all your help....

Ahbaid.

Jan Carlson wrote:
> 
> Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a linux pc and a Hewlett Packard K220 on the same lan,
> >
> > the K220 has a tape drive on it which is used for backup to DDS
> > tapes.
> >
> > Is it possible to backup my linux pc via. the LAN onto the tape drive?
> 
> Yes, tar and dump on Linux can write to a remote tape drive.
> Install the rmt program if the remote machine doesn't have one yet.
> At the end of "tar --help" you will see the syntax.
> 
> Jan Carlson
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Ahbaid Gaffoor
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Guyana Sugar Corporation
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Guyana, S. America

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