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

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:18:18AM -0400, Ralph Eagle wrote:
> Ran the tar through buffer:

Yes, but you didn't give tar an output block size.
> shinzon:~# find /usr/kbmosas/std | buffer | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T -

Try:
mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 32768
find /usr/kbmosas/std | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T -b 64 -

(if the drive doesn't accept 32768, try 16384, and -b 32 with tar)

That way, the tape drive and tar both use the same blocksize.

Frank


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