backups on 386/ix - some pronblems using GNUtar; any hints?
A. Lester Buck
buck at siswat.UUCP
Fri Dec 8 09:43:51 AEST 1989
In article <478 at myab.se>, herder at myab.se (Jan Herder) writes:
> If the tape is not streaming you don't get 120Mb. Everytime it has to
> stop you loose a some bytes.
This is incorrect. You do not lose any bytes from start/stop mode. If the
tape is streaming but the next block is not quite ready, the drive can write
an extended inter-record gap and then the data when it arrives. If the data
does not arrive within a certain time window, and the drive has to stop and
reposition, the extended gap is re-recorded as a normal inter-record gap.
The extended gaps can really chew up tape if your system is on the brink of
stopping streaming.
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A. Lester Buck ...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck
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