15 May
2007
15 May
'07
6:56 p.m.
e.stiebler wrote:
Just one remark to this.
If you're using a "*nix" like system, you probably have "buffer"
installed on your system. (or just find it).
It is nothing spectacular, but just a buffer a few megabytes which helps
to buffer the seeks of your diskdrives. So (from memory) you have :
tar cvf BACKUP | buffer -16m > /dev/st0
isn't that exactly what tar's blocking factor* is supposed to do, only without
the need for a separate utility?
*I thought it was a standard feature of tar, not something that's only
appeared since the GNU days.