debian man page for ddstool

DDSTOOL(1)						      General Commands Manual							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.

								   9 Januar 1997							DDSTOOL(1)