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



File system limits don't apply to tape drives because there seen by the
system as a black hole, it's a serial stream rather than a file system. Your
only limit is the capacity of the drive.

:o)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Eagle [mailto:ralph@kubinski.com]
> Sent: 27 September 2005 2:28pm
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2
> 
> 
> >
> > you're not hitting the 2Gb limit (with some tar) are you?
> >
> 
> Nope... while trying to debug the problem, I've been using 
> groups of files 
> in the 2 to 10 MB range. And, when I put the card and tape 
> drive into the 
> other boxes (SCO 486 and Linux PII) I used the same set of 
> data for testing. 
> 
> 
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