>Thanks...that did the trick. Now all I've got to do is figure out just how
>to erase the tape before backing up to it. Or, does that happen
>automagically when tar begins to write to the device?
No worries!
Tar will blindly write over anything that's already on the tape. So you
don't need to format the tape. Trust me, formatting a tape (even erasing
one) can be excruciatingly slow! Just write over them.
Once you get artful, you can start playing with the "mt" commands ("m"ove
"t"ape). Then you can use non-rewinding devices, and put more than one tar
file on a tape (provided you have room). ;)
If you start running tight on space on that tape, remember to add the "z"
flag when you create, and read the tape. Then it will compress the data.
Depending on what the data is, it can recover a lot of space.
Cheers
Ric
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