Re: [TCLUG:7428] Tape backup headaches

[schewe@tcfreenet.org]

On  9 Aug, Tim Wilson wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to set up my tape backup system at school. I'm finding that I
> probably should have spent more money to get a DAT-based system because I
> haven't had much luck yet.
> 
> I bought a Seagate TapeStor 4 GB SCSI drive. It uses TR-4 tapes. I tried
> Arkeia, but it doesn't support that drive. Using 'taper' produces a
> segfault while attempting to write the archive to the tape. I'm guessing a
> generic 'tar' would do the trick, but does anyone know of a more
> user-friendly approach that might work on this system?
> 
Try KBackup.  You might have to turn off the double buffering, I've had
real problems with that, but otherwise it works pretty good.  I've got
a Seagate Drive, but uses QIC-3080 wide tapes.  All the tape software
I've used, including taper, just recognizes it as a SCSI tape drive and
is happy.
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Jon Schewe 
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