> Hi after 2 years of struggling with this crap and getting no where, can > anyone help me figure out what is causing these errors.
> it seems to be random doesn't matter which tape or drive I use they all > do it. even changing machine and scsi controllers doesn't fix the > problem. > is it something I'm doing wrong. Which operating system do you use? Which version/s? Which tape devices have you tried? Which SCSI controllers? Did the other tape backup product work? To me this looks like the tape device can't read the files on tape ("I/O error") and tar complains as a result of that ("Unexpected EOF"). afaik amverify tends to mix up error message order in its reports. Moritz > [...]