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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: User-Friendly tool for DAT tape drive
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <24045@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 06:31:58 GMT
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- In <24045@oasys.dt.navy.mil> paraska@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Paraska) writes:
-
- | I have a 4D/30 PI with the SGI DAT tape drive. I'm looking for a tool
- | (shell script, or whatever) that will make USERS (not hacks or sysadmins)
- | feel comfortable with putting their precious data on DAT tapes. Past
- | bad experiences with "mt" and "tar" with overwriting previously stored
- | data on the 1/4" drive tapes has these users scared of tapes. I'm hoping
- | someone has a tool (graphical, tied to the workspace) which will make
- | the users sure that they will:
- | 1) not overwrite previously stored data on the tape, and
-
- tar 'r' (or 'u'), while somewhat slow (and gets slower the more that is
- written) is about as foolproof as you can get in appending data to
- tapes (and works fine on DAT). Make sure you always specify the same
- blocking factor, and if you expect to read the tape on other systems,
- such as Sun's; that have brain dead DMA that can't handle blocks
- greater than 64K - 2 bytes, make it a smaller than the SGI default
- blocking factor.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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