{"id":25,"date":"2017-09-15T00:45:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2017-09-15T02:12:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T02:12:49","slug":"tar-and-unbuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/tar-and-unbuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Tar and Unbuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26 alignright\" style=\"font-weight: bold; -webkit-user-drag: none; display: inline-block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: -1ex;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tar-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tar-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tar-768x503.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tar-1024x671.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tar-924x605.jpg 924w, http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tar-671x439.jpg 671w, http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tar-269x176.jpg 269w, http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tar.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Well to make things interesting I&#8217;m now considering installing Unbuntu so that I can use Tar to back up these drives as it seems that Tar is really the only option that isn&#8217;t proprietary and will still be in use and free to use years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Based on my initial research other people have been able to use tar with the same Quantum Ultrium LTO5 tape drive as well as almost the exact model SAS card.<\/p>\n<p>Tar can also span archives across multiple tapes and each tape is still readable independently.. it has everything I need!<\/p>\n<p>This person seems to be doing what I want with the same deck.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.cs.swarthmore.edu\/~knerr\/helps\/lto5.html<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/WindowsDualBoot<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.experts-exchange.com\/questions\/20832880\/Restore-Unix-Tar-Tape-in-Windows.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well to make things interesting I&#8217;m now considering installing Unbuntu so that I can use Tar to back up these drives as it seems that Tar is really the only option that isn&#8217;t proprietary and will still be in use and free to use years from now. Based on my initial research other people have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup","category-lto5","category-tar","category-tech","category-unbuntu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}