[4184] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Error with SCSI-Tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry M. Augustin)
Fri Jun 19 13:12:00 1998
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:54:57 -0700
From: "Larry M. Augustin" <lma@varesearch.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
Cc: Dombrofsky Klaus <Klaus.Dombrofsky@Brueckner.de>,
Mailingliste Linux-Scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980618202905.723s-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>
Don't use "r". It doesn't do what you think it does. Use "c" instead.
In your example you're not appending to an archive. You are writing a
new archive as the next record on the tape.
Also, I always use --label=NAME to fast identify multiple archives on
a tape.
Larry
Jon Lewis writes:
> 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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