Re: [flexbackup-help] Determining Tape Drive Size

[Charlie B. <cha...@e-...>]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Dan wrote:

> Problem:
> 
> The system does not provide effectively for incremental backups, and in 
> any case that would require sensible tape management.  I want a full 
> nightly backup on a new tape each night.  However, the data set is too 
> large for the tape, and restoring can be complex.

I don't know how much it will help, but you could take a look at spantape 
- might not be too hard to fit underneath flexbackup:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/spantape/

spantape is a replacement for dd that features the ability to sequentially 
span a stream of bytes across multiple SCSI tapes. It supports both fixed 
and variable block sizes and assures the correct order of tapes during 
data recovery.

Author:

Sebastian Zagrodzki

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Charlie