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From: berkley@wucs1.wustl.edu (Berkley Shands)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 8mm and bru
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.164235.28245@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 16:42:35 GMT
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While I'm new at the SGI game, it seems to me that I should get more
than 408Mb on an 8mm tape with bru. What am I missing ?

 bru -cvR -b 128K -s 32678M /usra /usrb /usrc /usrd /usre /usrf > 01.04.91 &

SYSLOG reports errors on the tape (I think the drive needs to be cleaned).

	Berkley Shands