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Re: tape drives

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Subject: Re: tape drives
From: Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 08:33:44 -0400
Organization: Armstrong International Inc.
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> I'm curious about the "find a file quick" feature of some commercial
> software, are some able to do that without a "on-disk" catalog?

Yes, at least with the HPUX backup/restore package.

The tape catalog is kept at the beginning of the tape.
(don't ask me how it rewrites the beginning of the tape
without destroying the backup it just made :)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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