Tape Backup Blues!!
Ron Pfeifle
ronp at tslwat.UUCP
Wed Feb 14 08:53:23 AEST 1990
In article <2574 at wb3ffv.ampr.org> howardl at wb3ffv.ampr.org ( WB3FFV) writes:
>Well to my suprise I found that the 150meg unit
>will read tapes all day long, but write, forget it!
I a similar problem using the sysadmin backup to do backups. New (Unused)
tapes just wouldn't work. *However*, tapes that had already been written
on were fine.
Turns out that "/usr/bin/backup" has no problems writing to "unwritten'
tapes. So, whenever I have a new tape, I first use /usr/bin/backup to
write an empty file to the tape. Then sysadmin backup doesn't complain.
Ron
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