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From: lancs.sm@ukc.UUCP (lancs.sm)
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Subject: Re: Problems with restore (4.2BSD)
Message-ID: <4968@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 22:45:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 11 22:45:31 1985
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Reply-To: lancs@ukc.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
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Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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Summary: 

When trying to do a restore, mounting the tapes in reverse order as suggested,
restore asked us for a tape which had been previously mounted.
After we mounted this tape - we got a HUGE number of diagnostics about files
being missing from the tape.
We tried it again in the forward order and it worked!
I guess it splits files between tape boundaries and doesn't realise not to
re-read a WHOLE tape after getting the tail end of a file from the previous
tape.