Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!uunet!drivax!braun From: braun@dri.com (Kral) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Dumping to an exabyte tape drive Message-ID: <776PKVH@dri.com> Date: 10 Sep 90 15:20:56 GMT References: <439@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> Organization: Digital Research, Inc. Lines: 20 In article <439@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> wyatt@cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Bill Wyatt,OIR) writes: > >I think you'd better concede the last 10% or so, as long as dump can't deal >with EOT. And even if it could, I once had a nasty surprise when restore >broke because a multi-volume dump (9-track in this case) did't start at the >beginning of the tape. > So the $64k question now is: why can't dump properly deal with end of tape? It's not like it's a new technology or something. Another (I suppose this one is only an $8k question): I'm not sure what you mean about the multi volume set above? How did dumps behavior cause the multi volume dump to start not at BOT? -- kral * 408/647-6112 * ...!uunet!drivax!braun * braun@dri.com What a man desires to know is *that*. But his means of knowing is *this*. How can he know *that*? Only by the perfection of *this*. - Arthur Waley, "The Way and its Power"