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From:	"Craveiro, Marco" <Marco DOT Craveiro AT solvay DOT com>
To:	"'Don Sharp'" <dwsharp AT iee DOT org>, gnuwin32 <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Cygrunsrv and backups
Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:28:50 +0200
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"Don Sharp" wrote:

> > anyway, there's just one thing i dont understand on your script:
> > 
> >         mt -f /dev/nst0 tell
> > 
> > why do you need this?
> > 
> 
> One doesn't strictly need it. I use it to tell me how near to a full
> tape I am using so I reshuffle what goes on which tape when it proves
> necessary.
> 
	hey, that is quite cool as I want to add 2 tests to my script (is
the tape full, is the tape empty). how do i interpret the tell output, i.e.
whats the max blocks on a compressed dds-2 tape?

	marco


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