aa@lln-cs.UUCP (Andre April) (12/06/90)
Hello. I have a DMA-SCSI adapter from GE-SOFT (Germany) and a SCSI disk on my 1040ST. I also have a Cypher 540 Streamer (60 Mb) which is connected to the SCSI bus trough an Emulex MT01 adaptor. Does anyone heard about a backup program that can use a SCSI streamer (where can I find it) or about a device driver like in Unix so that I can use GNUTAR. (I'm tired of floppies...) Andre April Unite d'informatique Universite Catholique de Louvain Belgium E-mail: aa@info.ucl.ac.be
paulm@ccicpg.UUCP (Paul Moreau) (12/11/90)
In artical <1005@lln-cs.UUCP>, aa@lln-cs.UUCP writes: > > > Hello. > I have a DMA-SCSI adapter from GE-SOFT (Germany) and a SCSI disk on my 1040ST. > I also have a Cypher 540 Streamer (60 Mb) which is connected to the SCSI bus > trough an Emulex MT01 adaptor. Does anyone heard about a backup program that > can use a SCSI streamer (where can I find it) or about a device driver like > in Unix so that I can use GNUTAR. (I'm tired of floppies...) > > I wrote a SCSI tape TSR driver and a tar program to go with it that creates and reads UNIX compatible tar tapes. I use it to backup my system and also to bring home goodies I find here and on terminator (save time on the phone). I have added features to tar that allows me to backup several partitions to make use of the 60+ megabytes of tape I have. I have also added switches when extracting files to ignore the drive (partition) and/or directory path so that I can say: tar -cvb 255 c:\*.* d:\*.* e:\*.* to backup everything. If i want everything to go back to the repsective drives I just type: tar -xv. Say I want to put files from c: to a partition on e: I cd to e: and type: tar -xvd c:\*.*. I can also ignore path information on the tape so that I can extract files that are on tape say c:\bin\*.prg to anywhere by cd to where I want them and type: tar -xvs c:\bin\*.prg. As you can see I kinda bastardized tar by redefining the -d and -s switches. I can't delete files from tape or update or any of that stuff yet so I used thoughs switches for my own use. Anyway it works. As soon as I figure out how to post to binaries and source I'll send the stuff out as PD. Maybe somebody can improove on it (most likely :^) ). --- .==========================================================. | ### ####### ### | N O R T H | /==============\ | | ### ### ### | A M E R I C A |< An STC Company >| | ### ####### ####### | (was CCI) | \==============/ | |----------------------------------------------------------| | UUCP: ..uunet!ccicpg!dl2!paulm | Paul L. Moreau | | or ..uunet!ccicpg!dl1!paulm | Sr. Diag Software Eng. | | or ..uunet!ccicpg!paulm | Irvine, California | `=========================================================='