Tape Management Systems, Backups, Archives.

[Tony Olekshy]

In <231 at flinders.cs.flinders.oz>, Richard Sharpe
(rsharpe at 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 at oha.UUCP).