writing to tapes

[Don Flynn]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Jason D. Justman wrote:

> Yes, that would work fine under normal conditions which dump was designed
> for (ext2).  The only problem is the filesystem I am trying to back up  is
> (right now) a smb share on another machine mounted locally.  tar cf
> /dev/st0 /home/raid works just fine, but will result in me wasting about 6
> gigs a day, when only about 5 meg changes (if that).
> 
> jason
> 

     Hrm, well, if dump doesn't work on this my suggestion would be to
cobble something together with 'find'.  Although, you'll need to be able
to look for mtimes on the fs you're trying to back up.


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