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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ccvax.ucd.ie!njconway
- From: njconway@ccvax.ucd.ie
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Multiple fbackups to one DAT tape
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.130514.49411@ccvax.ucd.ie>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 13:05:14 GMT
- References: <1711@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
- Organization: University College Dublin
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1711@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>, pearmana@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Pearman) writes:
- >
- > I want to run fbackup on several machines using the
- > -f machine:device option and dump onto a DAT tape on a central
- > HP machine, appending the fbackup dump file onto the end of the previous
- > fbackup dump file.
- >
-
- i would like to do multiple fbackups too, and i acquired the patch which allows
- mediainit to partition a DAT tape into two pieces, with the aim of having
- different things in each partition - but i can't figure out how to tell the
- software (fbackup etc, or even tar) or the hardware to use the second
- partition... perhaps using mt to skip to EOD ?
-
- it isn't mentioned in *any* of the manual pages i looked at - not even the one
- for mediainit which tells you how to do the partitioning - in fact, no other
- man pages even mentioned the word partition on a tape drive :(
-
- surely someone out there must know ! :_)
-
- Neil
- njconway@ccvax.ucd.ie
- neil@nebula.ucd.ie
-