backup through the fs

[Jim Barton]

In article <9405 at dasys1.UUCP>, rpaul at dasys1.UUCP (Rod Paul) writes:
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> I ended up writing a shell as a general front end at our facility (as
> "bru" has so many flags), I used some other shell from the SGI release
> as a template. I don't remember what it was now, just check out every
> damn program that does backups.

The base level shell for modifying is called 'beer' (pun on 'bru' obvious),
which sets up a simple daily, weekly and quarterly backup schedule for
an operator to follow.  I believe it's installed in /etc and is standard
with the release.

> One thing I wonder though, how portable is a file backed up with "bru"?

I took pains to keep bru compatible with other EST implementations of bru,
so tapes written with it should be readable on anybody else's bru.

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