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From: danny@idacom.uucp (Danny Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Tar Backups
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.185931.21912@idacom.uucp>
Date: 17 Jan 90 18:59:31 GMT
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> lampi@pnet02.gryphon.com (Michael Lampi) writes in <24648@gryphon.COM> :
> [...]
> If you like tar for backups there is no reason it can not be used for such.
>

There is a big problem with tar for doing backups if your backup
spans multiple tapes.  This is not a particular problem with Apollo,
just tar in general.

This means that, for example, you want to backup a 10 Meg directory
and only have 5 Meg tape, tar will only backup half the directory!

It does not prompt for a second tape and will not inform you that
data was not recorded.

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