From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 6:55:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49A537C194 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 06:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000614135524.DILT25427.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE> for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 06:55:24 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:54:47 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) Personal Organization: Williams Enterprises X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <5413.000614@home.com> To: freebsd-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: broken tape? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a Seagate tape drive in a FreeBSD server that seems to work when tar to create a tape archive but when I try to read the data back I get most of the files tested ok until it gets near the end of the tape when gzip (running tar with the -z option) and then tar complain about "unexpected end of file." This is only a two week old drive and I have tried it with two different tapes with the same result. Using dump to try to create a backup fails while writing to the tape. Any ideas where I should look for the problem so I can fix it? -- Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message