From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 8 07:46:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA26023 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 07:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from hack.babel.dk (shredder@hack.babel.dk [194.255.106.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA26013 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 07:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shredder@hack.babel.dk) Received: from localhost (shredder@localhost) by hack.babel.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA05001 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:46:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:46:46 +0100 (CET) From: chrw To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: recovering tar archieve / ssh Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I hope someone can help me out or give me a hint on the following problem. I thought i finally had a working effective way of makign backups using tar, with several machines located physically away from my office, using a single streamer mounted on a host on my desk. Ive been using tar thru an ssh pipe to the fbsd streamer host, like tar cvfpl - * | ssh -c blowfish molly 'cat > /dev/nrst0' everything seemed to work fine, but today i tried doing a desaster recovery test.. It start extracting fine, but after 1 or 2 mins tar terminates with "tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file" :( this is defintly NOT good. Its a brand new tape. I havent tried with another tape so far, could be a bad tape? (yeah, when u cant explain why things go wrong, blame it on the hardware).. the setup is, im doing backup from several sgi servers, onto the freebsd streamer host. I cant see this should be a problem. Anyway, EVEN if it is a tape error, i cannot rest assure that my backups are good untill i have to verified every single tape i got :( Maybe tar can verify each archieve it makes automatically, in the future..? Ill go check the man page. Anyone have any hints or comments? Christoffer Walther Unix Admin PROVENTUM