YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("Yates, John H.") (08/17/90)
What is the MB capacity of a 600' Sony 8mm tape on SGI's 8mm drive? What is considered the "best way" (uh oh... I can see hundreds of opinions coming...) to back up a live system (e.g. sample scripts)? (Backup, bru directly, or...) I have three 1 GB disks, can't umount any partitions, and a full Backup more than fills one 8mm tape. The Backup must be suitable for complete system recovery in the event of disaster. If I use Backup / , I get all disks and thus more than one 8mm tape. If I select /usr, /bin, /etc, /u0, /u1, etc., I miss important stuff, esp. at / . I'd like to back up each disk completely independently so it can be done unattended, overnight, and all we have to do is remember to rotate tapes in sets of three. Thanks, John yates@c.chem.upenn.edu P.S. I am very, very far behind in bulletin board stuff. I owe a summary and some personal responses about VMS save set readers. I haven't had time to even fire it up yet myself. I hope to find time soon.