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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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