From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 22 00:17:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA26600 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:17:30 -0800 Received: from news.iadfw.net (jbryant@news.iadfw.net [204.178.72.99]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26594 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:17:29 -0800 Received: from localhost (jbryant@localhost) by news.iadfw.net (8.6.5/8.6.6) id CAA07565; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 02:17:09 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Message-Id: <199503220817.CAA07565@news.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: ANy one useing ft driver under 2.0 current??? To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 02:17:07 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503220655.WAA07688@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 21, 95 10:55:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2301 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > From: "Rodney W. Grimes" > 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 -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@server.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America