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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Backup Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:32:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4qgp42$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4q38l2$nd5@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E streitz@vt.edu (Stacey Reitz) wrote: > Does any backup software exist for FreeBSD which will run on an > Iomega ditto machine? F*cking brand names. What's an Iomega ditto? There's rudimentary floppy tape drive support, but the driver is orphaned, nobody is willing (and/or got the resources, either by time, skills, or equipment) to maintain it. This is mostly due to the terrible handling these devices require. It's nothing you are doing volunteerily and for fun. Most people who once dealt with it finally gave up in favor of a real tape drive. (Where the latter term starts at anything which is at least a QIC drive with a QIC-02 interface card.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)