Bash script to backup data to magnetic tape
This is a bash script I wrote in 2010 and have been using ever since. It backups data from a network storage to a magnetic tape. I don't backup much data every time so this script will continue the backup on the same tape, I backup about 600MB and the tape I use is 72GB so I dont need to erase the tape very often. I guess doing like this wont tear out the tape as fast as if I would write the same data to the beginning of the tape every time I'm doing a backup. I have looked at some other scripts I found on the web, e.g. Vivek Gite's version, but it wasn't what I needed. I hope other people looking for this backup-method will find my script useful. I run this script on debian stable and guess all the commands I use in this script is in debian stable by default. Edit: I've put the script here: https://github.com/DomeDan/magnetic-tape-backup #!/bin/bash # magnetic-tape-backup v0.1 # Original author: DomeDan # License: GPLv3 # http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt # #created 2010-10-24 #last update 2012-02-24 # #This a script I wrote to backup files to magnetic tape (DAT) from a n