I got a couple of answers, and all mentioned the same:
!!! It is not possible to simulate a nonrewinding tape on diskfiles !!!
The mt-command is a tape-specific command and doesn´t work on regular files
on disk.
The only way to get the mt-command working would be to write a own
mt-command which can manipulate disk-files.
Thank you* very much for quick quick responses.
*(Jim Belonis, J.A. Gutierrez, Dr. Thomas Blinn, Rao Ram, Nikola
Milutinovic, Raul Sossa S., alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com, sysadmin_at_astro.su.se)
Josef
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wingert, Josef" <Josef_Wingert_at_bdt-rw.de>
To: <tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: howto simulate a nonrewinding tape ?
> Hello all,
>
> is it possible to write e.g. multiple tar-files onto a single file on
disk,
> so that the diskfile simulates a nonrewinding tape and that i can use the
> mt-command with the fsf/bsf option on that diskfile ?
> I need this for testing an backup-concept ?
Received on Tue May 22 2001 - 05:30:03 NZST