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I recently acquired a Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive and managed rather
easily to get it set up and working under Linux.

I was looking through the available software for managing backups.

I rather like the setup in backup-1.00.tar.gz.  (I think that's right)
Using gzip to compress a tar file scares me due to it's inherent
instability.  I like the fact that this set of backup scripts uses
afio to generate a per-file compression.  Plus, the interface for
managing volumes, full vs incremental, etc is quite nice.

My main concern now is that with a 120MB tape, I want to be able to store
several archives on one tape (for example, home directories and dos
filesystem).  It seems to me that afio stores each file as a single file
on the tape rather than all files in the archive as one file.  This makes
actually managing separate archives difficult if not impossible.
For those that use this set of scripts, is it possible to have is automatically
manage multiple archives per tape?  Or is it possible to modify them so that
perhaps the output of afio is run through tar or cpio to generate a single
archive file?

Or, is there another backup system that will allow this?  I've looked at the
other systems, but their interface isn't quite as nice.

Or, am I missing something altogether concerning afio?

Any help would be appreciated.

account through BNR will bounce.

Thanks,

Drew Moseley

Quote:>  It seems to me that afio stores each file as a single file
>on the tape rather than all files in the archive as one file.  This makes
>actually managing separate archives difficult if not impossible.

I don't have a tape drive myself, but as far as I know whether you can
store multiple archives (archive files) on a single tape depends on the
tape hardware and driver software.

If your tape supports multiple archives, a program like mt has to be
used before starting the backup script.

Quote:>Drew Moseley