I've been using Karsten Self's sample backup script available in the Linux Backup mini-FAQ at:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html This script basically uses tar to archive a list of directories to tape and then verifies the backup as well. When I run the script, the output is the following: z8:~/backup# ./full.script tar: Removing leading `/' from member names [snip 8 more lines of this] /etc: verified /root: verified /boot: verified /home: verified /usr/local: verified /var/backups: verified /var/lib: verified /var/log: verified /var/www: verified Which leads me to believe all the data has been backed up and is good to go. However, if I do "tar tvf /dev/st0" to list the contents of the tape, all I get is the following: z8:~/backup# tar -tvf /dev/st0 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-10-18 19:59:23 var/www/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 4100 2001-03-22 17:39:29 var/www/index.html -rw-r--r-- root/root 1195 2001-10-18 19:59:23 var/www/search.html I suspect this is more user error than anything, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've tried rewinding the tape as well as doing a "mt -f /dev/st0 asf" 1 to position the tape at the beginning, but I still get the same output when I tar tvf. Any help is appreciated. --kurt
