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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Backup utilities for ix-386
Summary: Better suggestion for write-protect
Keywords: backup ix-386
Message-ID: <1989Oct19.134329.9518@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 13:43:29 GMT
References: <185@softest.UUCP> <[253554b6:333.1]comp.unix.i386;1@vpnet.UUCP> <11954@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <107@gizzmo.UUCP> <1989Oct19.031746.25893@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
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In article <1989Oct19.031746.25893@ddsw1.MCS.COM> nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) writes:

....

>Oh, yes. DO NOT try to do your restores interactively. USE A SHELL
>SCRIPT, lest you inadvertently, in your zeal to recover your precious
>files, accidentally write instead of reading the tape.  (After all,
>you're more used to writing it, aren't you?

That's what the little twisty thing is for on the tapes.

I >NEVER< put a tape back in the box with that set to "writable".  Always on
"SAFE".  Then you have to think before you scribble on the tape, and if you
intend to restore you can't write over your saveset.

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