Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:46:10 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Clash of the TARs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205202242210.3001-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020520203423.02b5a658@mail.sage-one.net>
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Jack - On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > My next thought, or question is "will any symlinks in the backup cause this > 'looping' if that is what it is?" ....or, is it a drive going bad....??? > Both drives are new, but I know that doesn't matter. Maybe BIOS is > confused...??? ...or...???? Drive 2 is having the problem. What are the switches and file-list you're passing [g]tar? Are you OK with disk space? Presumably 'yes', but then: is the size of the backup what you expected, when it runs properly? (I was setting up a simple, scripted backup with 'cpio' this week, and I filled /tmp, which pretty much stopped the action, including restarting X11. Just a couple of thoughts ... - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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