[Suns-at-Home] Backup

[Fam. Svantesson]

After using most of my contacts, friends (in this forums there's loads!) and
relatives and using up most of my swearwords (inventing a few new ones on he
way), I have now managed to install/cofingure a Sol8-system on my Sparc 20,
installing new PROM, processor etc etc (I am quite pleased with myself!
:-)  ).
One of the few things remaining to me, is making a backup, so I can avoid a
cock-up..if you know what I mean..  ;-)


I have access to a external 2 Gb DAT-player, and I now need a backup script.
The computer I have is a Sparc 20, 2 internal harddisks. a 4 Gb one, which
holds the main operating systems (4 partitions) and a 1Gb-disk for my
home-directory.

While I have a simple & rough script which may work, I really would like to
have a script which compares the available size on the DAT-tape to the
amount of backup needed. And which copies "full" partitions on the one tape,
avoiding the: half-partition-on-that-tape, half-partition-on-the-other
syndrome.

Any helpers out there?

Sinc: Magnus Svantesson