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>  - how will the file header on the second tape be different from
>    a file header for the start of a dump, will that break anything

As well as how to cope with "one bad tape" problems.  If you cannot
recover one of your chucks most likely you'll have lost the /entire/
archive.  Or as someone found a way to work around this with
tar/dump/whathaveyou ?



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