[4175] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Error with SCSI-Tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Jun 18 20:36:00 1998
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:32:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Dombrofsky Klaus <Klaus.Dombrofsky@Brueckner.de>
cc: Mailingliste Linux-Scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <07230DFDD9FCD011A9AD08002BB3E03E50E142@ATLANTA>
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Dombrofsky Klaus wrote:
> i have this problem:
> mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> tar cf /dev/nst0 File1
> later
> mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
> tar rf /dev/nst0 ./dir1 ./dir2
> Problem -> tar:cannot write to /dev/nst0: I/O error
>
> i want to write one file at the beginning of the tape for
> fast-identifying the tape and append
> different files or directories.
I do multiple tar backups to a single tape all the time. I've never used
tar -r though. Why not just do:
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
tar -cf /dev/nst0 File1
tar -cf /dev/nst0 ./dir1 ./dir2
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