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- From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
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- Subject: Re: Adding to a TAR tape
- Keywords: tar tape
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.154726.18675@utdallas.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:47:26 GMT
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- In article <lsloan.715963681@nova> lsloan@nova.gmi.edu (Lance Sloan) writes:
- >I am using a Sun SPARCserver 4/490 with an 8mm tape drive on /dev/rst0.
- >I can use tar to put files on the tape, but I cannot add files to the tape
- >after the initial tar.
- >
- >For example, I tar several files to the tape and later want to add a file
- >to the end of the existing tar file. The u (update) and r (write) options
- >to tar return errors.
- >
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- Adding files to existing tar files is only possible on a 9 track tape
- drive. The reason is that other tape drives can not accurately position
- the write head to the exact spot on the tape where the additional files
- would be appended.
-
- I believe the man page for tar will verify this.
-
- Regards,
- Tom Karches
- karches@utdallas.edu
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