DDSTOOL(1)
NAME
ddstool - simple shell script to manage dds tapes
SYNOPSIS
ddstool <command> <options>
DESCRIPTION
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)
AUTHOR
- This manual page was written by Christian Schwarz for the Debian
GNU/Linux system.