Well everything was working fine. I was on my third tape when it reached
./proc/kcore and it just sat there! I tried the whole routine again, and once
again it died in the same place with different tapes. What is ./proc/kcore?
Anybody know how I can get around this situation? I want a total back up of my
system before I install Mandrake 7.1! BTW- Can I upgrade form 6.0 to 7.1 with
minimal impact on PHP PostgreSQL etc?
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Subject: Re: [newbie] TAR Issue
"Lad. Gaal" wrote:
>
> I want to back up the hard drives on my unit to a SCSI 8mm tape
> (exabyte 8205) drive. For the life of me I can't figure out how to get
> the tar command to go more than one tape.
[...]
> I've tried
> tar -cvf /dev/tape /. but when the tape fills it dies, so I tried
> tar -cvLf /dev/tape /. I just get a bunch of ASII across the monitor.
Try this one :
tar cMvf /dev/tape /
This will create a multi-volume archive. But maybe if you compressed it
(with the 'z' flag), it would take only one tape.
HTH
Flupke
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