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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!hookup!news.mathworks.com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!adam.cc.sunysb.edu!engws4!prubin From: prubin@engws4.ic.sunysb.edu (Paul E Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Tape Drive Overwrites... Date: 30 Jan 1995 17:36:18 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3gj82i$6sd@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: engws4.ic.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi everyong. I have a small problem with a Colorado Tape drive. I can get it to back up info to the drive , but I can't back up multiple volumes to the tape. For example.. If I have 3 users on the system that I want to back up to tape and want to have 3 separate volumes for each user. I'm able to back up the first one fine, but the tape rewinds automatically after that and every time I back up another user, it will overwrite the information for the first one. I've tryed the following but didn't work.. tar cvzf - /users/jack | ft "jack's directory" now if you say ft -f /dev/ft0 status you will se something like fifill vol*01 00003434 "jack's directory" .... on the screen. Now back up the other user. ft -f /dev/ft0 weof tar cvzf - /users/mike | ft "mike's directory" now if you look at the tape again you will see : fifil vol*01 0002034 "mike's directory" ... What happened to the first volume that had jack's stuff on it... Why is the tape not responding to woef command and overwriting the data that was there before..? thanks in advance.. Paul..