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- From: sevigny@eckert (Benoit Sevigny)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Backing up a tape
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.210302.7756@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 21:03:02 GMT
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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- I would like to know how I can back up a 150Mb tape if I don't have
- that space available on my drive.
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- I tried to use dd iteratively but my A3070 rewinds automatically the
- tape when I get to reinsert it, so I loose the current location.
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- I know that dd can be asked to skip a number of blocks before starting
- to transfer but I can't figure out how to compute the actual location.
- Should I sum the previously transfered blocks _and_ the partially
- transfered blocks (0+285+1406+... or 0+1+285+1+1406+1+...)?
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- I script that could make a multi-pass backup and that could take the
- allowed space as an argument would be welcome.
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- Thanks.
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- __ Skipping every ?86 numbered lines in your code will remove all your
- __/// remaining bugs and bottlenecks 8^)
- \XX/ Benoit W Sevigny, software engineering student, sevigny@info.polymtl.ca
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