Matthew> Any one got any idea's on backups for an alpha. The
Matthew> dump/restore program I have, doeesnt actually seem to work.
Matthew> Very verbose about what its doing, but its way to quick and
Matthew> restore wont read what dump did write...
Matthew> tar doesnt make a particularly good backup program, and
Matthew> when I tried it the system crashed. Im not sure but it
Matthew> looks like the scsi driver (noname board - ncr ) paniced
Matthew> when the tape drive reported the device was full.
taper starts too look like a real nice program. First time I tried it
didn't work at all for the Alpha. But I had some correspondence with
the author and he was very interested in making the program 64 bit
clean etc. As I understand it, many fixes have been incorporated into
taper-6.2 already. I haven't had time to try it recently, but you
might want to give it a shot. Though my guess would be that it's
still a little risky to use it for serious backups.
--david
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