Tape dumping programs for Unix/Linux..

From: Raymond Moyers <rmoyers_at_nop.org>
Date: Thu May 2 18:42:43 2002

On Thursday 02 May 2002 17:42, you wrote:

> Ok, and fair enough... several of us detected that you might not
> quite grasp the scope of the issue, yet your dogged assertiveness
> was sending a different message.

 I certainly was not aware of blanks in the tape being used as
 record marks.

 If i might use the 1991 mips 3k sysVr4 unix thats on my old sony
 NeWS again as an example, its tar program cant write
 or read from a file. its only provided function is to/from
 the tape device to the file system,, how absurd !

 it was from the days before it became very common
 to treat tarballs on disk the same as tar streams on tape

 files on disk in [T]ape [AR]chive format, what a concept eh ?

 Some of us are just too spoiled

 Raymond

 ssh -P -v -l root remhost.somedomain.org \
 "(tar cf - /data1)" | (cat > /dev/nst0)

 
Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 18:42:43 BST