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[didierg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Didier Gasser-Morlay)]

hello there,

I just installed on my system a SCSI-2 Dat and have got a question 

What do people generally use to make backups. Tar could be easier (ao at
least I am not familiar with it) and I could not find any graphical
front end to it. any other suggestions ?

I also found the following: I could be wrong but I believe that there
are a couple of typos in the Suse 6.3 manual (page 275, section 11.8)
regarding the mt utility.

1. every example state a -d parameter for the device while the man page
states -f instead.
2. the example given to space the tape to the end of the recorded data
reads as follows
mt -d /dev/nst0 eof  according 6to the man page (& my own experience)
this WRITES an EOF mark at the current location on the tape.
the man page documents two other means (the difference between those two
is not clear to me)
use either mt -f /dev/nst0 eom (goto end of recorded media) or mt -f
/dev/nst0 eod (goto end of data)

didier


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