<html><head></head><body>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!<br><br>e.g., <br><a href="https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto/">https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto/</a><br><br>BillK<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 March 2023 4:22:31 pm AWST, Brad Campbell <brad@fnarfbargle.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">G'day all,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Anyone have any tips or ideas?<br><br>Regards,<br>Brad<hr>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br><a href="http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug">http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug</a><br>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.org.au<br>PLUG Membership: <a href="http://www.plug.org.au/membership">http://www.plug.org.au/membership</a><br><br><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>