A long time ago, on unix boxes, I made backups to tape cartridges with
the
cpio utility, because an interresting feature of cpio was it's ability
to chain several tape cartridges.
Now, at my home, I try to achieve the same thing (save big directory
trees) on my pc running linux.
The writing (cpio -o ..) seems to be ok, I am asked to put an other tape
in the tape drive and the writing continues.
But the restoring (cpio -i ..) fails at the end of the first tape with a
read IO error.
I am using a Tandberg SCSI tape with 6150 cartridges (150 MB) (/dev/st0)
and my linux is Slackware 3.3 with the linux kernel 2.0.30.
Also, I tried cpio using the floppy drive (/dev/fd0) and it worked fine
for
writing AND for reading.
A second question is: does it exist something like a non-rewinding tape
device ?. This would be useful to append stuf to the same tape, for
example
do several tar to the same tape.
Any hint is welcome...
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