From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 08:39:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5584116A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:39:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D466443D49 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:39:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j138cPj81082; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: , Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:38:23 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <20050203012221.GF17337@asu.edu> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: gtar failing, please help! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:39:07 -0000 > -----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