From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 14:59:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A621558F for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA25273; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:57:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:57:13 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mark Ovens , Richard JT Strutt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writing to Tape. In-Reply-To: <19991103163222.16052@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Wouldnt uucp or something see an end of archive and not look past the > > first dump on a restore? (just asking out of curiosity sake) > > I'm sure you don't mean uucp (a primitive network protocol). What do > you mean? > > If you want to restore from the second or subsequent file, you first > need to position the tape. mt(1) is your friend. I havent use uucp in ages - the one with freebsd has a nasty bug in it (there is some kind of pointer slippage, where on a restore, chunks of the ends of some files end up the beginning bytes of others) Anyways, like I said I was just curious. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message