[geeks] Does anyone know if OS X can handle standard UNIX tape devices?

[Andrew Weiss]

While a friend of mine waits for Retrospect to be supported, he wants to
do backups nightly.  He has a simple SCSI tape drive connected to his
machine.  I was wondering if I could just automate this with tar and cron.
I don't, however, have much time each time I visit him and he is a bit
flighty so I lose my concentration around him at times.  If someone has
done this before on a similar setup let me know, and I'll set him up with
this.  It's not friendly, but it's better than nothing I suppose.  He is
also into file synchronization, a replacement for a phone tracking tool he
used called In Control, and good fax software for OS X... since FaxSTF
sucks really badly (he can't rename his faxes from within the browser),
and 4sight hasn't released their OS X version yet.

Regards,
Andrew

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