hacker@egrunix.UUCP (Thomas J Hacker) (07/30/89)
Hello!! I'm working on a dumper system for a 4.3 BSD, and was wondering if anyone has anything better than backup? What it looks like I might end up writing is a dumper system that will start with a pool of tapes, each with a unique id (tape #), and the dumper will keep a table that associates each tape with a particular dump level of a particular partition on a particular day/date. In addition, I can have a delta time that will expire old tapes and return them to the pool. That way, I can write a restore program that can tell the operator which tape to grab for restoring a file. We are probably getting a big Ultrix system here soon, so does anyone know if such facilities exist on the Ultrix? (as well as BSD4.3??) -Please respond by E-MAIL, and I'll summarize and post responses. -- Thomas Hacker ...Weave a circle round him thrice, Systems Programmer And close your eyes with holy dread, Oakland University For he on honeydew hath fed, --"Kubla Khan" hackertj@unix.secs.oakland.edu And drunk the milk of Paradise. -- ST Coleridge