{"id":35,"date":"2017-09-15T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2017-09-15T18:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T18:26:26","slug":"cygwin-mt-and-tar-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/cygwin-mt-and-tar-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Cygwin, mt and tar to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cygwin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cygwin.png 256w, http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cygwin-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Cygwin-176x176.png 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>I have to try it but it looks like\u00a0 running Cygwin on windows should provide the free open source way for me to use Tar to back up to LTO5 tape<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com\/Quantum-LTO-4-tape-drive-and-Cygwin-1-7-td54235.html<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.experts-exchange.com\/questions\/20832880\/Restore-Unix-Tar-Tape-in-Windows.html<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/cygwin.com\/ml\/cygwin\/2013-08\/msg00340.html<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/cygwin.com\/ml\/cygwin\/2009-10\/msg00527.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to try it but it looks like\u00a0 running Cygwin on windows should provide the free open source way for me to use Tar to back up to LTO5 tape http:\/\/cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com\/Quantum-LTO-4-tape-drive-and-Cygwin-1-7-td54235.html https:\/\/www.experts-exchange.com\/questions\/20832880\/Restore-Unix-Tar-Tape-in-Windows.html https:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/faq\/linux-tape-backup-with-mt-and-tar-command-howto\/ https:\/\/cygwin.com\/ml\/cygwin\/2013-08\/msg00340.html https:\/\/cygwin.com\/ml\/cygwin\/2009-10\/msg00527.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup","category-cygwin","category-lto5","category-tar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swissarmychainsaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}