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- From: justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan)
- Subject: Re: Backing up several HP's & GNU Tar
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:20:34 GMT
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- In <HKARHUNE.93Jan12172806@hydra.Helsinki.FI> hkarhune@hydra.Helsinki.FI (Heikki Karhunen) writes:
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- >First some details.
-
- Good to see your very detailed-oriented.. :)
-
- [details deleted]
-
- >As the specs say you can squeeze upto 8 Gb into a DAT tape with one of
- >these beauties. Ok, we'd really like to do our backups to one tape.
- >Easy, ehh? No way, buster....
-
- HP documentation isn't the best, but it doesn't usually LIE..
-
- >The problem arises from the fact that fbackup insists on starting the
- >backup from the beginning of the tape, i.e. if the tape is not rewound
- >when fbackup gets its' grubby hands on the device, fbackup rewinds it.
- >Thus you cannot put but one fileset per tape.
-
- Sure you can. Just use a different device.. For instance, I do my backups
- with /dev/rmt/0m and it automatically rewinds the tape when it's through.
- If I wanted to prevent it from rewinding the tape, I would use /dev/rmt/0mn.
- The 'n' stands for 'NO rewind.' My DAT drive is a noncompressing drive,
- but it's the same way with the compressing DAT subsystems.
-
- I really hope that helps...
-