[plug] Tapes

[William KENWORTHY]

Let tar handle the encryption/compression and use mt to control the drive. That's how we did it in the good old days.  Hopefully the tapes are better these days .. I thought LTO had gone the way of the dinosaurs ... and good riddance!

e.g., 
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto/

BillK


On 8 March 2023 4:22:31 pm AWST, Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com> wrote:
>G'day all,
>
>I've gone and bought an LTO-5 tape drive with the intention of supplementing our already pretty comprehensive backup routine. It won't fit in any of my on-line machines, so the intention is to put it into the office "workshop" machine with a fast disk, stage the backup onto the disk and then write it out to tape overnight. I don't need partial writes or recovery. There will be no issue writing or reading the whole tape. If I need to recover from tape I have bigger issues than the time required.
>
>My thought is to use tar through compression and then encryption streamed out to tape. I'll have a play with compression and encryption that can sustain damage and still recover the remainder as a belt and braces.
>
>Anyone have any tips or ideas?
>
>Regards,
>Brad
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