Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:38:23 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <David.Bear@asu.edu>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: gtar failing, please help! Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEDHFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050203012221.GF17337@asu.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of David Bear > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:22 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: gtar failing, please help! > > > for me, my experience down scsi tape units and freebsd has been a road > into the black abyss. I've finally got the tape dumps to work -- but > it took many hours of trial and error. > > btw, I wonder how many tape unit users get burned by the fact that > they don't test their tapes -- and when they need the tape find that > it was bad.. > Probably lots - I always use the compare switch in my tar backup scripts to avoid that. Have you ever had the un-pleasure of working with Sun's tar, though? no compare switch, and the kernel only reports tape block errors to the console. (assuming your lucky enough to have a tapedrive that reports errors back to the kernel that the kernel understands) Ted
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