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- This program is designed to be used in conjunction with a version of win32tar
- that I found that DOES work with tape drives on windows NT. However the
- executable only could be found and no mention of who did the port.
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- The drawbacks of win32tar is that it only lets you read/write one saveset on
- a tape. It does however write a filemark after each saveset. To get around
- this problem I designed lktapeutils.
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- First you must erase a tape or it must be new to use with tar. You can erase
- it in ntbackup or use the lktapeutils -h command.
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- Then you write a saveset on the tape using tar
- ie. tar -cf\\.\tape0 -Vsaveset_1 -vvvv
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- now if you wanted to read the saveset you would issue the command
- tar -tf\\.\tape0 -vvvv
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- or alternative use the lktapeutils -l command which will list all tar
- savesets on the tape. Now to write another saveset on the tape you use
- the lktapeutils -s 1 command to space over the first saveset then you
- again issue the command: tar -cf\\.\tape0 -Vsaveset2 -vvvv which will
- save everything in the current directory. Now there are two savesets on
- the tape but even if you issue the tar -tf\\.\tape0 command twice in
- a row it will only list the first saveset and same goes for restoring it.
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- To get around this you would issue the command lktapeutils -s 1 and it
- would position the tape at the beginning of the second saveset and now you
- can list it or restore it. Alternative you can use the command lktapeutils -l
- to list all saveset on the tape. For a complete list of lktapeutils commands
- issue lktapeutils -h, for a complete list of tar commands issue tar +help.
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- I can be reached at kahn@kahn.pdial.interpath.net or kahn@drcoffiste.com
- or 71534,600 on compuserver for problems. No promises on fixes however.
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- Source will be provided to interested parties for other platforms on whateever
- after contacting me and prividing a "donation".
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- good luck
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- larry kahn
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