tape backup

Am 25. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Jim so:

> When a backup is written to a tape using tar and there are several
> nights backups on those tapes, how can it be determined which backups
> are from which nights.
>
> For example if you backup the same file names each night to a tape how
> can you tell which day you are restoring when a restore with tar is done
> from a DLT tape?

Most programs write a label to the tape before the backup. I used to includ=
e
a README-style file as the first thing in the backup.

The tar headers should also contain things like a timestamp.

ciao,

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