On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 05:43:13PM -0700, Edmund wrote:
> I've got a client that has an HP SureStore T4 scsi internal tape
> backup. I'm trying to use dump and dd to write the backups to tape and
> then restore them for a test. I've tried setting "obs" and "ibs" in the
> command line for the dd call to many different settings, 512, 1024, 1k,
> 10k, 32k etc.. The result is that I always get an error. Below is
> what is going on.
>
> Using the following settings::
> ------------------------------
> dump 0unf - /etc | gzip -c | dd of=/dev/st0 obs=512
> dd ibs=512 if=/dev/st0 | gzip -dc | restore ivf -
> ------------------------------
>
(...)
> st0: Write not multiple of tape block size
> dd: /dev/st0: Input/output error
> 1957+1 records in
> 1957+0 records out
(...)
Hi,
does it help if you tell dump to use a special block size by using the option
-b (see man dump)? Of course the block size every single command uses should
be the same...
Bye, bye, Juergen.
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