home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!arritt
- From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Tape Drive Question (one more time...)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.155009.43013@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:50:09 CDT
- References: <22345@galaxy.ucr.edu> <po39pko@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <prjv40k@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <pru3570@sgi.sgi.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
- Lines: 40
-
- In article <pru3570@sgi.sgi.com>, jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon) writes:
- > In article <prjv40k@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >> In <SCOTTH.92Sep14095327@hoshi.corp.sgi.com> scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) writes:
- >>
- >> | >>>>> In article <po39pko@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >> |
- >> | olson> To put multiple archives on a single tape, just do 'mt feom' first to
- >> | olson> get to the end of the recorded data.
- >> |
-
- I tried this: first I did
- bru -cv file1
- and when it was done, followed it with
- mt feom; bru -cv file2
- No complaints from bru, so I assume everything went OK. The problem
- was with reading the data back. If I just did
- bru -tv
- all it found was file1. By analogy with the archive creation procedure,
- I decided to try
- mt feom; bru -tv
- This made bru very unhappy. First it gave "warning: media appears to be
- unformatted" then it asked me to load volume 1.
-
- Could someone post a short script for appending an archive and then
- reading it back? Also I am assuming that for more than 2 archives
- one would repeat 'mt feom' a total of (N-1) times before writing
- the Nth archive. It would be handy if this could be automated in
- some way, instead of having to keep track of how many archives are
- on the tape.
-
- If someone has a script THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY USED
- as opposed to "this ought to work..." it would probably be very useful
- to a lot of people.
- ________________________________________________________________________
- Raymond W. Arritt | Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Assistant Professor | University of Kansas
- arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | Lawrence, KS 66045
- Apr 1 12:29:21 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A SLAVE
- Apr 1 12:29:27 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A CANDIDATE
- Apr 1 12:29:31 timed[92]: This machine is master
-