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1.  Is there a way to name or label each tape archive?   I'm searching
the pax and mt man pages, but I haven't found a way to label individual
archives.

2.  I'd like to create searchable files of the tape archives to help me
locate the relevant backup.  My approach (during creation of the
archive) is to pipe 'find' into 'tee' to create a dated file of the
output from find, then pipe it into pax to create the tape archive.  Is
there a better way to document archives?

Thanks
Steve Stoddard

Or you can create a "LABEL" file which you force pax (or
whatever) to write as the first file to be saved to the tape.

Quote:>2.  I'd like to create searchable files of the tape archives to help me
>locate the relevant backup.  My approach (during creation of the
>archive) is to pipe 'find' into 'tee' to create a dated file of the
>output from find, then pipe it into pax to create the tape archive.  Is
>there a better way to document archives?

                --Ken Pizzini