Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!elroy!spl1!quintro!reb From: reb@quintro.UUCP (Roger E. Benz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: -f cur on CTAPE drives Summary: try adding the -no_eot option. Message-ID: <611@quintro.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 15:57:26 GMT References: <8807011448.AA12262@umix.cc.umich.edu> Organization: Quintron Corp., Quincy, Il. Lines: 33 In article <8807011448.AA12262@umix.cc.umich.edu>, FERGUSON@BKNLVMS.BITNET writes: > > I was backing up some user directories the other day on a cartridge > drive, and came upon a problem. First, I did > > wbak -dev ct -f 1 //blah/blah/blah > > then I did > > wbak -dev ct -f cur //blah/blah2 > > The tape rewound itself politely, and proceeded to write right > over the first file. It seems that -f cur always means -f 1 > on the cartridge drive, or in wbak. > When wbak'ing more than once to the same cartridge tape, you must add the '-no_eot' option to all but the last wbak. This option suppresses double end-of-tape marks for cartridge tapes. The first wbak should be wbak -dev ct -f 1 -no_eot //blah/blah/blah and the second one should be wbak -dev ct -f cur //blah/blah2 -- Roger E. Benz Quintron Corporation UUCP: ihnp4!spl1!quintro!reb Phone = (217) 223-3211