[Sussex] Suggestions for backup software

[Colin Tuckley]

Ronan Chilvers wrote:

> Have a peek at flexbackup - it'll apparently do windows machines via
> smbmount.

That does look interesting.

> Having a problem with the drive in that it doesn't seem to stop at the
> file blocks correctly.  If I do
> 
> tar cvf /dev/nht0 /dir1
> tar cvf /dev/nht0 /dir2
> 
> then
> 
> mt rewind
> tar xvf /dev/nht0
> 
> I get a directory listing of dir1 but then
> 
> debian3638:~# mt tell
> At block 2.
> 
> I should be at block 1, surely?  Consequently another 

Firstly is it a Scsi device - tell only works for them according to man mt

Also you could be suffering from "being past the start marker" and thus it
knows the tape is in the middle of block 1 - so a read will read block 2.

Reading multiple blocks on a tape usually has to be done "on the fly"
because of the overshoot problem when stopping the tape.

regards,

Colin

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