On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:35:21AM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Tape. > > > > I've never really used tape drives, but my one experience was not good. > Someone else backed up data to a tape on a mid 90s unix machine, I > think. I needed the data about a year ago. We were unable to access > the data because we were clueless about how the tape was formatted, what > software utility wrote to the tape, etc. The computer that wrote to the > tape was long gone. > > From this experience, it seemed that there is no standard when it comes > to tape formatting, reading, and writing. Has this changed? If not, > they don't seem that useful to me.
I have no experience with tape either, but I thought that's what tar & ar were for? AFAIK, no actual filesystem would be practical, so probably a tape's content consists of nothing more than a tar file. Someone who actually knows something can point out any idiocy in what I just said. :-) -- Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
