• Remote tape devices:

• Local disks and those mounted via NFS:

• Tape devices with automatic tape changing (tape stacker, for example). These backup devices can be addressed:

• locally with backup_dev_type = tape_auto
• remotely with: backup_dev_type = pipe_auto

See Automatic Tape Changing.

• Jukebox and autoloader. These backup devices can be addressed:

• locally with backup_dev_type = tape_box
• remotely with backup_dev_type = pipe_box

• Automatic volume management. See Volume Management.

• An open interface to interface program BACKINT, to enable backups using external backup programs. See Using External Backup Programs.

Using the parameter tape_copy_cmd you can choose whether files (not on raw devices) are copied from disk to tape with cpio or dd.