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From: wyatt@cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Bill Wyatt)
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Subject: Re: Dumping multiple partitions to a single tape.
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Date: 26 Feb 90 15:14:54 GMT
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|> There is an easy workaround for this one.  For your last dump use
|> the rewind device and the tape will rewind automatically when
|> the dump is complete.

> If dump behaves like tar, then this will cause the tape to rewind to
> BOT *before* dumping the last filesystem, thus destroying your earlier
> dump(s).

WHAT??? If your tar does this, it's broken, broken, BROKEN!


Bill Wyatt, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory  (Cambridge, MA, USA)
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