Good advice from Wolfgang, I have a very good script that I use
from a cron job to do backups. It uses afio. I could make a tar
ball out of it and send it along.
Carl
On 29-Jan-99 Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
>> I have a strange problem about ftape driver. After taring the
>> archive I
>> have to wait (sleep) about 1 minute to perform other ftmt commands
>> otherwise I get Device or reosource busy error. What do I do wrong ?
>
> Let me guess:
> You are using tar -cp*z*f /dev/TAPE or similar, using gzip for
> compression. Tar cannot check if it's grandchildren return OK,
> so tar just returns. Of course gzip is still grinding on the tape.
>
> If that's indeed your situation, I would considering to stop that
> practice immediately. One single error in your tape will corrupt
> almost the complete archive. If you need compression, you may
> want afio (which compresses individual files, so only they die).
>
> -Wolfgang
>
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E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29-Jan-99
Time: 23:10:18
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