Tape backup using tar

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Aug 4 16:27:24 UTC 2005


On Thursday 04 August 2005 11:06, Stuart Bailey wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm haviong trouble using tar to backup to tape.
>I have FC3 (last updated on 22nd July) with an HP DAT 72i tape
> drive. This was installed and working fine since March this year.
> Just recently (could be coincidental with the update), backups have
> been failing. This is a 72Gb tape drive, and it is reporting 'no
> space left on device'  after backing up just 2048 bytes.
>I have run the HP diagnostic tool and all tests pass. Also, I have
> cleaned the drive, usedf new and old tapes.
>
>There are no entries in /var/log/messages relating to the backup
> failure.
>
>I have tried a raw write using dd, and that aborts after a couple of
> Mb of data.
>
>/proc/scsi identifies the drive correctly (along with the Adaptec
> SCSI card).
>
>Any ideas would be gratefully received.
>
What version of tar please?

>Many thanks.
>
>Stuart.
>
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