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Alfonso_4
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‎04-11-2002 04:09 PM

‎04-11-2002 04:09 PM

rsync

Could rsync copy files to tape? How?

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Stuart Browne
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‎04-11-2002 09:01 PM

‎04-11-2002 09:01 PM

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Re: rsync

RSync is not designed to write to a tape, no.

To do that, you need to use something like 'tar' or 'cpio', or another 'backup' product.

You could raw-dump data to a tape using 'dd', but I wouldn't advise it (as getting it back off again could be quite disgusting).
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