Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2
> I think this might be a hardware compatibility problem, but you be the
> judge.
>
> Using tar, I can write a tape archive to the scsi dat drive (tar cvf
> /dev/st0 /usr/kbmosas) without any errors but when I try to read the tape
> back (tar tvf /dev/st0 or tar xvf /dev/st0), I get the following
> messages
> intermingled with the verbose output from tar listing the files in the
> archive;
>
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> The messages do not seem to be consistent - sometimes the base-64 header
> message does not happen and once or twice out of about ten or twenty
> tries,
> I can read the tape back without an error. It seems like the bigger the
> backup the more likely the problem.
you're not hitting the 2Gb limit (with some tar) are you?
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