According to Curt Sampson:
>
>On Wed, 15 May 1996, Tom T. Thai wrote:
>
>> am looking for an easy solution to backup and restore from DAT on 
>> NetBSD.  If all the drive died, what is a good bootup floppy to prepare 
>> to restore from tape?
>
>I use cpio. After backing up, I verify using -tv and squirrel away the
>file list that's created so that I can refer to it later to see if a
>file I want is on a tape.
>

I prefer dump and restore myself.  I have a QIC tape drive (250Mb) so
I need multiple tapes to do a backup, dump handles this nicely and you
can restore without having to do a minimal install first as long as
you have restore hived off somewhere since it is not on the
standard boot floppies.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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