Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:59:36 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar dies on making tape backup Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060726125901.0257e690@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <F5C904B2-0905-4042-8E22-6987B2EE69ED@snowmoon.com> References: <3ABD124B-04D2-4861-84A1-6EC27F1466D2@snowmoon.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20060724172755.025cb680@mail.computinginnovations.com> <F5C904B2-0905-4042-8E22-6987B2EE69ED@snowmoon.com>
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I use the ASCII headers for portability incase I need to restore to another
server with a different tar version.
-Derek
At 06:29 PM 7/25/2006, Jaime wrote:
>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
>
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