Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> > that could help us out completely. I worry that with just tarring up the drives
> > they might be difficult to recover.
>
> You'd take an average of just under 2 hours to locate a file on
> the tape. Oh, and you don't want to use compression with tar
> (one bad bit, and there go your 50 'GB' archive).
...
> Personally, I like afio (which can compress on a per-file
> basis[1] and can tell you where on the tape the files are
> during creation/readback --- and you could just jump there
> and go, if you still have the index file).
>
> -Wolfgang
>
> [1] so a bad bit will kill your file, but not the complete
> archive.
'BRU' has the same quality -- it compresses on a file-by-file basis if
you're doing software compression. There is also a method documented on
the EST web page for doing QFA access like you describe, but it's not in
the actual manual because it's Linux-specific (the manual isn't).
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