From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 15: 8:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E8F1557D for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:08:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991103180739.23114@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 18:07:39 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Steve Hovey Cc: Mark Ovens , Richard JT Strutt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writing to Tape. Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991103163222.16052@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Hovey on Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:57:13PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 3 November 1999 at 17:57:13 -0500, Steve Hovey wrote: >>> 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) As I said, that's not uucp. Greg > Anyways, like I said I was just curious. So am I. I wonder what you're talking about. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message