tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) (11/18/88)
In <231@flinders.cs.flinders.oz>, Richard Sharpe (rsharpe@flinders.cs.flinders.oz) writes: > > Would anyone know if there are any tape management packages available > for Unix... Hmm... Have you ever wondered if the reason *nix hasn't had good backup utilities is that it is soooooo easy to write a shell program to do the job using the available tools. Got a simple window manager for the shell? *Wonderful*, now you have a backup sub-system that does what you need. Now maybe the reason that no particular backup package has caught on, is that *none* of them do what *mine* does, no matter who *me* is. Of course, now that *nix has stolen some awards, there are people who can't write shell scripts, so some sites are converting their backup procedures into those accepted by a marketed package. I have no complaints here, I'm just observing. And if you have no-one who can write you up a shell script, there are ads for backup packages in the Unix World and Unix Review magazines, and if I can get a copy at the news-stand here in Edmonton (slightly frozen, but we like 'em that way), I suggest you try them. You might also try the /usr/group catalogue, or you hardware or OS vendor's third-party products catalogue. (Either that, or contract me to write you one ;-) Yours, etc., Tony Olekshy (...!alberta!oha!tony or tony@oha.UUCP).