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- From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Subject: Re: Backups
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.225233.23883@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Sender: alan@nabeth (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <oedX5t600j5u81EkQx@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Sep03.190809.22696@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:52:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep03.190809.22696@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>, ucap22a@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Alisdair R Davey) writes:
- > [ some stuff deleted... ]
-
- >...
- I'm sitting in front of a decstation 5000/125 running ultrix 4.2 with
- >a nice little exabyte attatched to it - I have a blank exabyte tape
- >on the desk in front of it and I want to save some files to it. ...
- >So can someone please tell me how I go about initialising my tape.
-
- You don't. Need to initialize the tape that is. I'm assuming
- that you something based on the Exabyte 8200 (Mountain Filesafe
- 2100 D is the one we sell).
-
- >Assuming I can manage this task hwo do I go about saving files to
- >it without them overwriting each other.
-
- Personally I'd use tar(1). If you want multiple archive write
- all but the first to the no-rewind device:
-
- tar cvf /dev/nrmt0h ./file-list-1
- tar cvf /dev/nrmt0h ./file-list-2
- tar cvf /dev/rmt0h ./file-list-last
-
- >I'm now off for a coffee. Can I make anyone one?
-
- I prefer my caffine as carbonated water, sugar, etc. Usually going
- by the name Dr. Pepper. Thank you for asking though.
-
- >Alisdair
- >
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- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
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