Hi folks, The tar info docs that came with my SuSE 5.3 say: "If you are writing a compressed archive to tape with `--compress' (`-Z') or `--gzip' (`-z') ( FIXME: pxref Input and Output ), `tar' will not block the archive correctly. This doesn't matter if you are writing the archive to a normal file or through a pipe, but if you are writing it to a tape drive, then this causes problems. Use `--compress-blocks' or `--gzip-block' instead, to cause `tar' to arrange to have blocking work correctly." But when I tried my customary backup script, altered from `-b' to: tar -czv\ -f /dev/st0\ --gzip-block 128\ ... I get: "tar: unrecognized option `--gzip-block'" What's going on? Are the SuSE 5.3 tar docs hosed? Is my tar compiled without this option somehow? I guess I'll fall back to the simple `-b 128' option I've been using, which the 5.3 tar accepts cheerfully. However, I did have to extract a few things from backup tapes after installing 5.3, and every time I got error messages complaining about "child exited with status 2" or something close to that. The extracted files seem ok, but I don't like errors. Anybody know what might be going on there? Thanks in advance for any ideas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
