Re: [BackupPC-users] archive problem

but again - shouldn't backuppc be taking care of the rewinding if necessary?

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Jeff Rippy wrote:

> Also the backuppc documentation and even the default

configuration uses /dev/st0 so why exactly do you recommend /dev/nst0 instead. Shouldn't backuppc be controlling where it writes to the tape?

/dev/st? devices rewind the tape on open and close, so you can't write anywhere but the beginning. /dev/nst? devices only rewind on insertion and removal. If you have small archives you can add more than one to the same tape on the nst device. To read them you can use mt fsf to advance or just read one after the other with tar (linux seems to want an extra dummy read to advance to the next).

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