Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 02:17:07 -0600 (CST) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@server.iadfw.net> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ANy one useing ft driver under 2.0 current??? Message-ID: <199503220817.CAA07565@news.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <199503220655.WAA07688@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 21, 95 10:55:19 pm
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> From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
> Subject: ANy one useing ft driver under 2.0 current???
> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 22:55:19 -0800 (PST)
>
> I am trying to get a colorado 250 working. It probes and every thing
> but ``tar czf - | ft "test1" runs for awhile and then finishes without
> error.
>
> I figure okay, good. Now let me try to read it back.
>
> ft "test1" | tar tzvf -
>
> Nothing nota, zipo.
>
> Okay.
>
> ft "test1"
> test:rgrimes {131} ft "test1"
> "ftfilt vol*01 0000000045 test1" - Wed Mar 22 06:51:56 1995
> test:rgrimes {132}
>
> Sure enought that is when I wrote it, but where the hell is my DATA???
Strange, I have about 12 tapes, all using tar/ft, all valid backups...
That is under 1.1.5.1-RELEASE, 2.0-RELEASE, as well as 950210-SNAP...
I really think that the QIC support is needed, and as a matter of fact, I
have thousands of lines of source to add full QIC compat via an user
program for interchange purposes, I think that symlink support will be
supported or is now supported under the standards, and hard links are
properly supported now if my proposal passed. I also have many changes
to add to the ft include file correcting mistakes in the releases, and
adding structs for the fileset standards. I am considering releasing it
as a shareware thing, a functional limited demo though, got to have
incentive to pay, I ship the full product from here, with a printed
manual, etc... It has two modes of operation, command-line or
full-screen.
Also, I have noticed that between 2.0-RELEASE and 950210-SNAP there is a
DRASTIC slowdown when using gzip [tar -z option] and ft at the same
time. Has this been fixed in -current?
BTW: try this:
tar -cvzf - what.to.back.up | ft "test1"
ft "test1" | tar -tvzf -
If you typed the above as you originally did, tar did exactly what you
told it too, essentially nothing... [I hate it when I do things like
that too :^) ]
Jim
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