ddstool1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the ddstool command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page.

Since the version of tar now shipping in Debian does not contain the patch necessary to support the --record-file option, this program will do nothing useful unless you're running a locally patched version of tar. First label a tape: ddstool create-label 'unique-string and more' To archive something: ddstool append pathnames... To delete the old index-files and make a new label: ddstool new-label 'unique-string and more strings' Each index is stored by the pathnames: $A/$unique-string.$file-number (soft link)

$A/$timestamp-of-the-tapelabel.$file-number (file)