tar
Eric Pearce
eap at bu-cs.BU.EDU
Fri Mar 24 12:20:16 AEST 1989
In article <8903231551.AA02202 at aero4.larc.nasa.gov> blbates at AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) says:
>
> If the 4D/70GTB is like the 3000's, you can't do what you're trying
>to do. Our documentation says that you can ONLY create an entire tape
>at one time, you CAN'T append to a tape that already has information on
>it. This is very annoying. Another annoyance is that archives can't
>be spread over multiple tapes.
Has anybody tried GNU tar on the SGI? (I can't try it myself at the
moment) It does multi-volume archives and incremental backups and
restores. I don't know if it would solve the tape positioning
problems you are having with the 1/4" drive. It's worth a try.
(you can get it from prep.ai.mit.edu)
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