Subject: Re: Does anyone do backups on CD-R?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: current-users
Date: 11/18/1999 15:57:50
>> It's not directly relevant to the CD-R question, but I have written
>> a pseudo-tape driver that allows dump - or any other program - to
>> continue thinking it's talking to a tape, when it's really talking
>> to a program.  It comes with a program that stores the "tape"
>> contents in a file, with framing information to identify tape record
>> boundaries.

> wannahave.

I'll send you a copy off-list.

> I can make use of it to do AMANDA backups onto MO media.

I wrote it so we could do amanda backups to pseudo-tapes and then copy
the bits to real tapes later, on another machine.  (At the time the
machine had no working tape drive, but we wanted to get amanda running
anyway.)

					der Mouse

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