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Subject: Re: tar dies on making tape backup
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On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek Ragona wrote:
> Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024
> and use ASCII headers (-c)

	Thanks for the advice.  I hadn't thought about block size.  Why do  
you use the ASCII headers?

								Jaime