hedrick@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick) (02/01/87)
Does anyone know of an archiving system similar to TOPS-20's? We'd like users to be able to say "archive <filenames>" and have them moved to tapes automatically. Then we'd like them to be able to say "retrieve <filenames>" and have them come back. Presumably it would be easy enough to write a program that would append a request to a file and then have a shell script read the file and create a script that invoked tar or something. (Indeed we already have a "retrieve" command that does just this, to issue retrieve requests against our old TOPS-20 archive tapes.) But I'd like to avoid reinventing known technology.