Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Ralph Eagle wrote:
> shinzon:~# find /usr/kbmosas/std | buffer | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T -
> Backed up 110 files, 1.2MB without any errors from tar
...
> shinzon:~# tar tzvf /dev/st0
> drwxrws--- root/users 0 2005-08-25 10:10:35 usr/kbmosas/std/
> -rw-rw---- root/users 7516 2005-08-25 10:31:52 usr/kbmosas/std/_amort
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Child died with signal 13
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
sounds like youhave:
- bad motherboard/memory
- bad tape drive cables
- do NOT put a tape drives on the same (ide) cables as disks
- do NOT put disk ond cdrom/dvd on the same (ide) cables
- which scsi card ..
- i'd always be using the latest kernel to 2.4.31 or 2.6.13 for the
latest drivers at the first sign of something broken
and going down to latest gcc/glibc/bash if needed
> Tested writing/reading tar ball to hd with no problem
good ansity check
> And there is the fact that if I put this
> scsi card and either tape drive in another box (tried two other 1- SCO Unix
> on a 486DX266 and 2- Debian Linux on a PII in testing), they work fine.
good .. hw might be okay with the distro you ran the test with
> This all leads me to think that the problem is the environment (mobo). Maybe
> this particular combination of mobo/scsi?
yup or memory that wasn't used in the previous tests
c ya
alvin
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