[ALUG] Backup solutions for "not very linux" server destinat

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:27:46PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 21-Nov-07 13:18:39, Chris G wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:01:08PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> >> I had tried "lofs linux howto" and didn't get much useful.  It seems
> >> that loopback is the key word rather than lofs.
> >> 
> > It turns out that 'man losetup' tells you just about all you need to
> > know about this.  Just what I need.
> And who (not already knowing) would have suspected that?!
> 
> Prior to googling, I had tried
> 
>   apropos loopback
> 
> and drew a blank. I should have tried
> 
>   apropos loop
> 
> Gives you a lot of other stuff, but losetup is also in there!

"man mount" would have been a reasonable place to look for info on
mounting things, and has a section on "THE LOOP DEVICE" including a
pointer to losetup.

J.

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