> tar: Skipping to next header
means the tape was jumping around waiting for your system or ..
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
your tape is bad .. and/or clean the head ...
Before posting, I did some extensive searching for other posts on the
problem and tape cleaning came up a fair number of times. I have cleaned the
drive with a cleaning cart. When I put the scsi card and tape drive into the
other boxes (SCO 486/Linux PII) I used the same tape, and the same set of
backup files for my tests - experienced no problem
I think this might be some type of conflict with the mobo perhaps?
and/or when writing ..
find /home/kbmosas | buffer | tar cvf /dev/st0
Hmmm, can not seem to get the above command to work. Produces the following
error:
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
Looked at the buffer man page and tried several permutations of your command
but could not get it to work. Besides it looks like buffer will only help
writing the data to the tape... The problem I have is reading the data back
off the tape. When I create the tar archive using: tar cvf /dev/st0
/usr/kbmosas there are no errors reported by tar. The problem is trying to
read the data back from the archive just made.
c ya
alvin
Ralph Eagle
Kubinski Business Systems
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