Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:46:46 +0100 (CET) From: chrw <shredder@hack.babel.dk> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: recovering tar archieve / ssh Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980108162510.4963A-100000@hack.babel.dk>
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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
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