Tape driver for multivolume backups?

[Chip Salzenberg]

[Crossposted to comp.unix.xenix since this hint is good there too.]

According to mark at intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins):
>I'm running AT&T 3.2.1 with the Everex tape driver from Enix installed.
>There's apparently a bug in the driver that causes it to hang on end-of
>volume, because after coming to the end of a volume on either tar or
>cpio, I have to shut the machine down & reboot to be able to write to another
>tape.

Get the afio program from the comp.sources.unix archives.  Among many
features with which it renders cpio obsolete, is this one:

	-s size     Specify volume size.  When this many bytes are
		    written, the output volume is closed and the
		    user is prompted to insert a new volume.

Afio: don't backup without it!
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