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From: <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 8:41:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060221134112.TSXR4463.ibm62aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> (raw)

mt is an app that will let you manipulate it.  The simples is to tar to the drive.  There are many apps such as Amanda and others  - check /usr/portage for the backup category.

> 
> From: "Nick Smith" <nick.smith79@gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/02/20 Mon PM 10:51:46 EST
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups
> 
> i recently accuired a DDS3 tape drive, ive never used a tape drive
> with linux at all.  what software is out that supports tape drives and
> how to i access it? what would its device name be? it is a scsi drive.
>  is there any software that is command line based but has a menu
> system, possibly like the old colorado backup system used to have?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Nick
> 
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2006-02-21 13:41 brettholcomb [this message]
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2006-02-21  3:51 [gentoo-user] tape drives and backups Nick Smith
2006-02-21 15:51 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin

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