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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
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- Subject: Re: Tape Drive Questions (was: Re: 3M MCD-40 Tape Drives & HDBackup)
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:42:46 GMT
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- Lee Kilpatrick (leekil@bbn.com) wrote:
-
- > Also, someone talked about using gnutar on the Amiga for tape drives.
- > I am using the tar version mentioned in the BTNtape documents, but one
- > thing I want to be able to do is transfer data using tapes & tar from
- > a Unix system. When I have done this in the past using disks and this
- > version of tar, it doesn't properly read the dates from the
- > Unix-created archive. I was hoping gnutar would fix this.
-
- I'm not using GNU tar, just another small tar port on the Amiga (it is
- about 35Kb, and I don't know who did the port). It works flawlessly,
- and I've been able to write data on the Amiga and extract it on Unix,
- and vice versa.
-
- However, I did not have good luck with GNU tar. It worked sort of OK
- except for one flaw. It could not maintain more than one archive per
- tape. For example, BTNtape lets you say:
-
- tar -cf tape: some_dir
- tar -cf tape:app some_other_dir
- ...
-
- Then you can get at each of the archives on the same tape via:
-
- tar -xf tape:0
- tar -xf tape:1
- ...
-
- No amount of prodding would get GNU tar to handle this. This was
- essential for me; I have tapes with over 150 archives on a single tape.
- GNU tar would always overwrite the first archive on the tape when
- creating later ones. In addition, the port of GNU tar was much larger
- than the other tar and seemed to have more bugs. I'd suggest ditching
- GNU tar and using some other tar. If needed, I could upload the one I
- have to an FTP site.
-
- - steve
-