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From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  tar
Message-ID: <28925@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 89 02:20:16 GMT
References: <8903231551.AA02202@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>
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In article <8903231551.AA02202@aero4.larc.nasa.gov> blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV (Bates TAD/HRNAB ms294 x2601) says:
>
>   If the 4D/70GTB is like the 3000's, you can't do what you're trying
>to do.  Our documentation says that you can ONLY create an entire tape
>at one time, you CAN'T append to a tape that already has information on
>it.  This is very annoying.  Another annoyance is that archives can't
>be spread over multiple tapes.

  Has anybody tried GNU tar on the SGI?  (I can't try it myself at the
  moment)  It does multi-volume archives and incremental backups and
  restores.  I don't know if it would solve the tape positioning
  problems you are having with the 1/4" drive.  It's worth a try.

  (you can get it from prep.ai.mit.edu)

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