Hi Daniel --
You asked:
> Just one question...
>
> Does taper implicitly call 'mt'?
Well, no. In fact, taper does its own ioctl calls, which is why it
is behind the other general-purpose utilities in supporting a broad array
of hardware. I spent a long time studying both taper and tob, and I'm
On Mon, 19 Aug 96 16:33 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> tar generates a single Tape ARchive (that's why it is called `tar')
> and knows nothing about multiple files or positioning of a tape, it
> just reads or writes from/to a device. mt knows everyting about moving
> the tape back and forth,
:
: There were only two sessions on my tape. Sadly, the second session
: contained the /usr filesystem, so I lost everything :(
Rejoice! you did not lose anything! Just reinstall and restore what you
have. All stuff in usr are executables and other read-only stuff as
per FSSTND. (except if you h
> There were only two sessions on my tape. Sadly, the second session
> contained the /usr filesystem, so I lost everything :(
Whenever doing backups, _verify_ your backups, even if it doubles the time
it takes to do them.
Oh, and whenever you're going to do something dangerous, _double_ your
bac
Ken Gaugler writes:
Ken> I had a nasty surprise using ftape to dump my filesystems for
Ken> archival right before repartitioning my hard drive. I wanted to let
Ken> people know about this in case they were not already aware.
Ken>
Ken> If you plan to dump several filesystems to one t
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