> Maybe; I know BackupExec also does some kind of seek to
> update the TOC at
> end of a backup (which is what I need to do). Then again,
> maybe that's just
> a rewind. I don't want to get into custom tape formats...
>
> Do we have any tape experts out there?
Dont lock yourself in on the tape issue, it is the pipes that
actually add value to the utility, and those can't rewind, seek
or whatever.
pipes can:compress, split output, write to storage managers, stripe output,
.....
I guess we would want two formats, one for pipe, and one for a standard
directory.
Andreas