[geeks] Linux tape backup help

[William Enestvedt]

If you staged the backup to local disk first (by writing to a tar file),
you'd be able to know the size pretty accurately. Then you could write
that to tape. Given how small your backups are, you might also hang on
to those files for a days or two to save restoring from tape, and to
give you ssome cushion should your tape or tape drive die.

   Just a thought.

- Will
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Will Enestvedt