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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Tar problem using System Manage/Backup&Restore
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.012914.16148@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 01:29:14 GMT
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In <1991Jun11.160333.15552@eng.umd.edu> naiming@eng.umd.edu (Naiming Shen) writes:

| After I used System Manager/Backup&Restore system utility, I have
| problem to read the files  on the tape by "tar t". It gave me
| "tar: directory checksum error". Is this because the System Manager/
| Backup&Restore doesn't use tar command?
| Thanks.

Yes, the system manager uses bru, not tar.
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.