[Gllug] multi tape backups

[Tethys]

Bruce Richardson writes:

>> 	mkfifo /tmp/fifo
>
>I would not trust that for something as important as a backup, having
>seen occasional randomness from fifos.

Particularly when you could just pipe the output of find into tar.
The fifo is rather unnecessary in this case.

Tet
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