[TriLUG] retrieving tar backups from solaris 8mm drives

[sholton at mindspring.com]

Other errors I've seen using tapes:

1. using a no-rewind device and a tape that needs to be rewound.

2. drive broke/mis adjusted/needs cleaning.

Can you make and retrieve a tar backup of something onto another tape
using the linux box and drive to rule out local system problems.

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Hennessee <Glenn_Hennessee at ncsu.edu>
Sent: Nov 1, 2005 1:10 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] retrieving tar backups from solaris 8mm drives

Is it the same physical drive moved to a linux box or a different drive? 
Maybe the old drive used hardware compression which the new drive 
doesn't do or software compression (tar -czvf ) was used so now you 
would need tar -tzf /dev/st0 (or whatever your tape device is). Just 
some thoughts, none guaranteed to be correct.

glenn

Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov wrote:
> I get input/output error at beginning of tape, exiting now :-(  with both
> /dev/nst0 and /dev/st0
> 
> 
> 
>>I would think tar should be tar - what happens when you do:
> 
> 
>>tar tvf /dev/nst0
> 
> 
>>with the dape in the drive?
>>ap
> 
> Doug Newcomb
> USFWS
> Raleigh, NC
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