[CLUE-Tech] tape backups

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 14:33, Mike Staver wrote:
> Oh, one quick last question - say my tape has no filesystem currently on
> it and is completely blank... how would I format it?


Theres no need to format a tape--programs like tar and cpio write the
file metadata onto the tape along with the actual file data.

Ed

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