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. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
