[ale] Tar and end of tape

[Greg Freemyer]

On 12/18/05, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/17/05, Howard A Story <adrin at haswes.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >
> > >My tar backups have started hitting the end of tape.
> > >
> > >I'm using a LTO-1 drive which does compression on the fly so the
> > >amount of data a tape holds varies based on the data content.
> > >
> > >Does anyone know a way to tell tar to proceed to the next tape without
> > >having to artificially restrict the tapes capacity.  ie. tell tar that
> > >a tape holds 150 GB because your sure it can hold at least that much.
> > >
> > >FYI: I used to run my tar backups thru a little known program called
> > >mbuffer.  This used to work and handle the tape swapping, but since I
> > >upgraded to SUSE 10, it fails.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Greg
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> > >
> > Hey,
> > Have you tried the man pages.   You know "man woman"   hehehehe
> >
> > There are some options -L and -M, but I have not tried this.  I have the
> > same problem.  It is on my do later list.   Most of the backup programs
> > I have seen try to be to complex.  I just want to write to the tape,
> > not make a database.
> >
> > Adrin
>
> -L does not allow for tape drives that compress.  -M was not working.
>
> I think my problem is a buggy kernel.  Looking in /var/warn I see an
> error about can't write End of File.  I started a test with a vanilla
> 2.6.14 kernel as left work Friday.  I'll see how it went tomorrow.  If
> it doesn't work I will try the latest 2.6.15 rc.
>
> FYI: I was using SuSE 10.0 based on 2.6.13 kernel.
>
> Greg

2.6.14 vanilla kernel soolved my problem.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century