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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:57:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Richard JT Strutt <rstrutt@uk.mdis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Writing to Tape.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911031755500.19381-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991103163222.16052@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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> > 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.



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