Naeem Shah wrote:
>Hello Randy,
>
>I finished a test backup which needed more than one tape but unfortunately
>tar exited with an error and did not ask for a second tape to insert in
>order to continue the backup till its completion.
>
>The error message is similare to:
>
>tar: /dev/tape: wrote only 0 of 1024 bytes
>tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
>And the tar is back to the prompt.
>
>Have any idea about this new situation. (my doubts cam
>true,,,unfortunately).
>
>
>
You might try the -L option with tar ('man tar' to see what it does).
Try a 'mt stat' and that should show you if you had errors on the last tar.
I will try to use tar on my machine, and see if it asks me for a second
tape. I'll let you know what happens.
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