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Re: How to backup to a tapedrive on a Sun? rdump?

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From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:18
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Dick Silbar writes
[rdump woes deleted.]
> 
> If not, is there a way to set up the crontab to write a  
tar file to
> the Sun's tapedrive? 

Run to your nearest archive site, and get gnutar.  It  
allows things like:
gnutar -cf sunflower:/dev/rmt12 ...

The receiving host must have rmt. (also provided in the  
gnutar distribution)  Compiling is straight forward.   
Latest release I know of is 1.10.
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From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Re: How to backup to a tapedrive on a Sun?  rdump?
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