Yes, Randy, -L options also worked after some difficulties in uderstanding
its concept.
But still I have some confusions:
1. My tape drive is DDS-3 and support upto 24 GB in comressed mode(normal is
12gb). But I am using a DDS-2 tape cartridge which support upto 8 GB in
compress and 4 GB in normal mode. Now, if I use -L option what the size I
should give with -L. I tried values for -L assuming tape length as 2 and 4
gb and both worked. But I dont know whether I will be able to get full 8gb
data capacity of my cartridge. (i can test it anyway, but your advise is
still valueable for me).
2. There is one more option I can see (with "man tar"). and this is -M (for
mutiple archive). I am trying it right now and hopefully it will work in my
case. I feel this option will give me a change to utilize the whole capacity
without mentioning the length of it.
Your comments on the above are highly appreciated.
Naeem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Kelsoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: how to install a tape drive on a system with a pre-installed
redhat 7.1
> 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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