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This is tob, the Tape Oriented Backup. Hope it's useful.

REQUIREMENTS

tob uses a separate archiver to do its work. The stock, recommended, configuration uses 'afio'. We suggestion at least afio 2.4.8.

Other archivers that are known to work include tar and arj; please see the sample-rc directory for examples.

You also need bash, sed, and other standard Unix tools.

INSTALLATION

Debian:

apt-get install tob

Manual

cp tob /usr/local/sbin mkdir /etc/tob mkdir /etc/tob/volumes cp tob.rc /etc/tob/tob.rc cp example.* /etc/tob/volumes

Red Hat:

        rpm -ta tob-*.tgz
        rpm -i tob*.rpm

Test your installation by typing:

        tob -full example
        tob -verify example

There are manual pages available in the archive, which should be put into /usr/local/man/man8.

MORE DOCUMENTATION

Tob's home page is at http://tinyplanet.ca/projects/tob/

Read doc/tob.ps.gz or doc/ps/tob.txt.gz, though it may be slightly out of date.

-- Stephen van Egmond <svanegmond@tinyplanet.ca>

June 7, 2003