Gary Andresen <Gary.Andresen AT veritas DOT com> had this to say,

> You have to de-mux and put to a single stream in order to use gun-tar. So
> when making DR tapes you de-mux a specific client or clients then send the
> tape off site. You now have a DR tape that can be used with GNU-tar for
> recovery without needing the backup software. This is a way to move data to
> a new machine(s) without having backup software installed on them.

Oh, now, this is very cool.  Volatile environment keepers (like myself) would
find this to be a Big Win.

Thanks for pointing this out.  I had wondered about how this might be
accomplished for Disaster Recovery purposes.

Thanks,

deb

Joke (but true):
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Ever hear of the Ford Nucleon?  It was a 1950s idea that never made it off
the drawing board -- a car powered by a small nuclear reactor in rear.