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On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <jarmstrong@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, all. I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo. I need |
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> to |
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> find a backup solution that will work for this type of |
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> setup. Unfortunately, |
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> there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape |
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> drive for Linux 2.6. I've tried LOTS of things to get that drive working |
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> (it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). I |
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> also bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh |
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> - |
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> no English drivers or instructions, even for windoze). It fails to do |
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> anything in Linux. Most of the time it tells me that there is no media |
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> inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way |
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> through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up |
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> around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't |
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> matter. Any |
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> ideas? Thanks! |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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a second harddrive or second machine, and rsync,tar,bzip2,date? |
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Cynyr. |
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if you are tired of virii look at http://fedora.redhat.com/ |
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and for those of you still using AOL's messanger |
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try out http://gaim.sf.net/... and for photoshop see http://www.gimp.org |
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use http://www.gimp.org/ |
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