Tape backup on fd and tar

[dwc at davewc.mv.com (dwc)]

On Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:30:20 -0500, you wrote:

>
>Eric Hansen writes: 
>
>>My question is, if I hook up this bargain drive to my floppy
>>controller, can I still use Unix-type backup utils such as "tar"?
>
>Yes.  You will need to compile and load the "ftape" module, then write
>to /dev/ftape.
>
>I have a Colorado Memories Jumbo 250.  I was never able to reliably
>write a backup tape and read it back again.  About six months ago, I
>finally gave up on it and got a Zip drive instead (which works
>perfectly, and offers random access, but holds only 95 MB per disk).
>The new tape drives may be more reliable, and I'm sure the software
>continues to improve.  I suggest you look around for successful users
>before investing, though.
>
>                       - Jim Van Zandt
>

I use my Zip Drive also.  You can use it like another hard disk or a tape.  I
currently do my DOS/Windows backup on zip disks using tar (under linux).  It's
very nice and easy to do.  I set my backup to span multiple disks and to ignore
certain files/directories such as "C:\TEMP, C:\WINDOWS\SWAP, C:\NETSCAPE\CACHE,
...".  If interested, I can send my backup script.

- Dave


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