Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, michael wrote:

> > 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

means the tape was jumping around waiting for your system or ..

> > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

your tape is bad .. and/or clean the head ...

and/or when writing ..
	find /home/kbmosas | buffer | tar cvf /dev/st0

c ya
alvin