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Re: [LUG] Tape Backup



On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:26:12AM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
Whilst trying to find a simple graphical tool - try using "tar"
just to make sure your data is safe.

In one of my jobs, we just used dd to dump a whole partition to tape.
Can't remember the command line unfortunately, it was straight forward,
except for some block size change that was system dependent.

Forget GUIs!

-Kai

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