From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 19:40:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25183 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA25127 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:39:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 17939 invoked by uid 100); 7 Jan 1999 03:39:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jan 1999 03:39:28 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 19:39:28 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why won\'t TAR cooperate\? In-Reply-To: <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Which version of FreeBSD are you using? I just saved a 3+ Gig file from tar to disk on 3.0-RELEASE. Can you try something like that? As an aside, could someone fill me on on what a "DLT" tape drive is, and costs? I'm not familiar with them, but am still contemplating backup options. Thanx, I wish that were the case, but this is a new DLTtapeIV with a capacity of > 35GB uncompressed or 70GB compressed on the DLT7000 drive. A paltry > 4GB file should easily fit. > > That said, could this be a case of tar for some reason thinking the > tape was full? How would I find out if this is the case? How would I > tell tar that the tape's capacity is MUCH greater than the 250MB by > a factor of 100 or more? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message