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From: bgbg@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (brian.g.beuning)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: fixdisk 2.0: Tbackup.sh bug
Keywords: fixdisk bug tape backup
Message-ID: <13050@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 16:32:54 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In general fixdisk 2.0 has been working wonderfully,
however ...

Fixdisk 2.0 includes a fix to the tape backup script.
This fix (something about making sure the tape door
is not locked when the tape is done) does not appear
to work properly when making a multiple backup-set tape.

I was using "backup by name" to archive stuff I don't
use very often.  After I wrote about 2 meg of stuff to
the tape (that should hold 20 meg), the "Show tape contents"
said the tape was full!  It turns out, that the fixdisk
change made to Tbackup.sh causes the "backup by name"
to be recorded as a "broken" type backup (i.e., the last
tape of a multi-tape backup set) and nothing can be written
to a tape after a "broken" backup set.

I did not figure out how to fix the problem, I just went
back to the old Tbackup.sh (at least until I encounter the
problem the fixdisk intended to fix).

		Brian Beuning
		att!iexist!bgb