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Re: BackUp Tape - Some Questions?



On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Meni Shy wrote:

> Ahalan ILUG,
> 
> 1. What is better DAT or QIC , Why (is DAT Dieing?)
DAT is not dieing, it's just considered still a "rare and expensive media"
in Israel for no reason. it's fast and stable, more than any QIC tapes I
have used, not to mention lower price per meg.

> 2. I have a SCSI-QIC tape that I can access through /dev/st0 ,but I dont
> know how to backup and restore. should it be mounted as a filesystem?
you could, but why not search the HOWTOs?

http://www.linux.org.il/LDP/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO.html

http://www.linux.org.il/LDP/LDP/sag/node80.html