Hi Corinna, Setting tar's -b size up resulted in a radical increase. Still not streaming but real close and workable. Reading in a 100GB tape with 500MB to 1,500MB files should take about three or four hours instead of three weeks! I'm going to keep experimenting to see if I can get it to stream which should bring it down to 2 hours. Thank you!
In experimenting I found '-b 20480' was "too large" and did not work. I have not had a chance to determine at what size tar breaks. Any idea why I can't set the block size greater than 32K using "mt setblk"? We have a number of tapes which have a 64K block size and I'd rather having to rewrite them. Thank you again, Bill -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/