Jaime wrote:
I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape
drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and
DDS-4) tapes for years. The command now appears to work for a while and
then dies with this message about 2.5 hours into the process:
archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?! This can't happen.
Any idea what this means?
I'm using:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD atlas.cairodurham.org 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jun
28 11:27:09 EDT 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
This is my first FreeBSD 6.x system, my first SMP kernel, and my
first DLT drive on a FreeBSD system. Using Google, I couldn't find any
answers that were useful. (Just a few dead threads from various forums
and mailing lists.)
Thanks in advance,
Jaime
I had the same problem recently and Google told me to look for files
with malformed dates. I used "find" to search for files dated before Jan
1, 1970, and found one dated 1901. As soon as I "touch"ed the
problematic file, tar worked.
HTH,
Micah
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