On Tuesday 26 November 2002 23:47, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote:
>Hai Dieter:
>
>Does it not spell like the data is replicated?
>If on monday, files a, b, c, d, e are modified and no files are
> modified for the rest of the week, then from monday through
> friday, all the tape drives seem to have the same files.
>
>Some mechanism to avaoid this?
>
>Regards,
>Nitesh

>>From doing a recent recovery with nothing but dd, gzip and tar, I 
noted that an unchanged file will be only a directory list entry 
for the parent directory on the tape unless its time for a full on 
that directory tree.  The directory tree is always recorded as near 
as I can tell.

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