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- From: david paul hoyt <YZE6041@vx.acs.umn.edu>
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- > With a properly designed ANSI tape
- > subsystem, it is easy enough to have tar, and cpio (and even
- > dump/restore) use ANSI labeled tapes, and it can be totally transparent
- > to the user.
-
- And better yet, we'll have a standard way of dealing with multi-volumne
- tapes. It's hard enough to backup your own multi-gigabyte disk system, let
- alone send large databases to other (potentially non-unix) systems.
-
- david | dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu | dhoyt@umnacvx
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 89
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