From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 19:45: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CCC37B40A for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 19:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03012; Mon, 20 May 2002 22:46:10 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:46:10 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Clash of the TARs In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020520203423.02b5a658@mail.sage-one.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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