As Allan Alford wrote:
> Since it's a 1/4" tape, the concatenate and append flags on tar don't
> seem to work. Trying to tar multiple directories fails as a result.
>
> Referencing the device as /dev/nrst0 does not seem to help either.
How exactly do you do it? It works for me.
> Dumping a 496meg file system reports that I need 10.2 tapes!
Dumps defaults are stupid. Use `dump -a' instead (but beware, EOF
detection is currently broken, there's an open PR for this).
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