multi-volume backups with taper?

1997-03-24 Thread Bob Billson
Has anyone been successful using taper to backup to multiple tapes? If so, what is the secret? :-) I can't get passed the first tape. I'm trying to do a full backup of my system. My floppy tape drive is a Iomega Ditto drive (QIC-80). I am using it with zftape (v1.06) instead of ftape driver.

Re: multi-volume backups with taper?

1997-03-24 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Bob Billson wrote: Has anyone been successful using taper to backup to multiple tapes? If so, what is the secret? :-) I can't get passed the first tape. I have had the same problem. Apparently, taper does not see the end-of-tape properly. I got around this by

Re: multi-volume backups with taper?

1997-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
Carlo U. Segre: I have had the same problem. Apparently, taper does not see the end-of-tape properly. I got around this by specifying the length of the tape in the options. This forced taper to ask for a second tape. I can reproduce this as well. This may be related to bug #7059 (taper