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From: conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (Darryl C. Conliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo won't release rbak/wbak format.  grrr.
Summary: Is it necessary?
Message-ID: <46080999.14df5@ulsoy.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 89 19:56 GMT
References: <26979@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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In article <26979@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes:
> 
> We do all of our nightly dumps to an Exabyte tape drive on a Sun and
> use a variety of formats in the process - dump, tar, cpio and wbak.
> I wanted to find out some details of the wbak format so that I could
> run some simple tools on the Sun to give me a table of contents
> of the tape.  So I called Apollo, and their response is that
> "the rbak/wbak format is unpublished and we don't want to give it out."
> 

Is knowledge of the internal format necessary?  Why
not index the tape for a TOC?  How do you gen
the tape in the first place?
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 Darryl C. Conliffe  conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu  (313) 721-6069
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