From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 21:49:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE6A1065709 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:49:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f21.google.com (mail-gx0-f21.google.com [209.85.217.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B5E8FC19 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:49:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: by gxk14 with SMTP id 14so7753166gxk.19 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:49:58 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.150.13 with SMTP id c13mr101241ybo.156.1233179398675; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:49:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090128212739.GB74728@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20090128202349.GD63837@dan.emsphone.com> <20090128212739.GB74728@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:49:58 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jaime To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Quantum tape drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:50:03 -0000 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:27 PM, David Kelly wrote: > You list -v as a tar option. Is tar sticking on a file? I just added that to my script in order to see what was going on. I didn't use it a week ago. I'm dumping straight to the tar drive. Look at the tar command again and you'll see /dev/sa0 in there. :) > Another question is whether or not tar could be getting caught in a hard > link or symbolic link infinite loop? Look for duplicates in the output. > uniq(1) should be of assistance. Perhaps uniq needs a sort(1) to > preprocess, I forget? Not a bad thought. However, I'm certain that there is no recursion going on. The delays are happening too early on for that. Also, this script works well if I target an external HD but never finishes on the tape. Thanks for the idea. I hadn't considered it before. Jaime