Is this back up solution to simple.

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I have a linux server, that we have made a back up off the operating system (though its not really important as its easy enough to get opensuse and set it up as a LAMP server) and this should stay constent.

The only things that change are a database, and 2 other folders. the database i do a nightly mysqldump and zip with gzip

the 2 folders i copy and then us tar -czvf
all these files then get moved into a backup directory on the server with the current date on there. I have done a restore from this and it seems fine.

How would I go about sending these 3 zipped files to a tape device thats connected to the server?

TIA
 
I personally don't tar directly to tape, I don't know why? I usually use the following command where tapedrive is usually nst0 or st0.

dump 0af tapedrive files-to-dump
 
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