On Tuesday 30 December 2003 08:43, Kurt Yoder wrote: >Gene Heskett said:
<snipped> >> Its inconvienient for some, but infinitly safer for all this way. > >Couldn't "append to tape" be simulated? That is, rewind the tape and >check the tape label as normal. Then copy all contents of the tape >to the holding disk. Then use amdump to add to the holding disk. >Then flush the holding disk back to tape. The drawback to this >solution is that it would take quite a bit longer. However, there >would be no risk of accidentally overwriting portions of the tape. > >I'm just asking in theory; I have no plans to implement anything >like this at my site. I suppose it could be done, but gawd, what a bunch of wheel spinning that would be. In my case the 'mt -f /dev/ice seof' works like a charm. But thats been amply proven to not work for some drives, so I haven't even considered mucking around in the sources. Besides, with my teeny drive, I'm up to an 8 day dumpcycle as it is, with the average tape useage reported to be 95% or more. If I had a 200Gig LTO or something instead of a 4gig DDS2, well... But then I can't afford a tape for an LTO, so why should I dream :) Andrews solution is that his holding disk is on a raid-5, so its not quite as large a problem if something gets a tummy ache. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
