On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 09:01:21PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote: > > > On Jan 26, 2017, at 1:23 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <ma...@linux-mips.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Nico de Jong wrote: > > > >> I did some research, and the most reasonable outcome was that it was not > >> possible by normal means, because some algorithm reading synchronisation > >> data couldnt find out what was happening, so, the backup was ruined..... > > > > Odd. This would imply you couldn't wind a tape past a medium error and > > read what's behind, but I surely did it a couple of times with DDS tapes. > > That's a good point. Can it really be true that a tape error that creates a > false EOT results in the loss of all remaining data? Surely the designers > weren't *that* stupid?
It could with drives with built in compression. -- - d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
