On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:01:10AM -0700, der.hans wrote:
/_Am 25. Sep, 2003 schw?tzte 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 include
/_a README-style file as the first thing in the backup.
/_
/_The tar headers should also contain things like a timestamp.
/_

I too am curious. If the results of a command like
'tar -tvf /dev/<device>' lists all the files, and they
are all called "backup.tar" with differant dates, sizes, etc, how do
you extract one over another?

-mike