"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Claus-Justus Heine wrote:
> >
> > > > Aren't these marks simply "file marks"? (just asking, I know that
> > > > there are thos MTFSS/BSS/WSM tape operations, are these
> > Aren't these marks simply "file marks"? (just asking, I know that
> > there are thos MTFSS/BSS/WSM tape operations, are these effectively
> > different from the MTFSF/BSF/WEOF operations?)
>
> Yeah, it's a different beast. Trust, me, I can tell mt to find a mark
> and it'll
> skip over all kin
> Now all you need is a good script which will do a full dump and then put
> incrementals after it on the same tape, right? Of course! I'm sending you
> my perl backup script (which backs up *multiple* machines) via direct email
> anyone else who's interested can have it to. My backup script has th
> 3. In setting the volume size, how can I correctly bring the compression
> factor of using zftape into account?
This is difficult. Generally, there is no easy way to predict any
compressors efficiency unless one knows which kind of data is going to
be compressed.
When compressing ordinary files
he FAQ then use the mailing list, if the answers given in the FAQ are
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