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What is the best way to do a backup to a 40 GB tape drive using Red Hat Enterprise ES? I have noticed there are several ways to do backups and so I was just wondering which one is best...Thanks for any help.
Thanks for all the help with this one...after reading for a while in many different places it seems as if using the dump command is going to be my best option. I will try it and see if it works and post back so someone else who is having problems will have a resource.
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