tar multi-vol
Nina Pham
nina at gibbons.com
Mon Nov 22 22:46:00 UTC 2004
I have some problem when I do tar.
# tar cvf /dev/st0 /temp
tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 to 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now.
Then I tried to untar by tar xvf /dev/st0. I saw just part of the original file which was tar(based on the size).
I thought it was the out of tape problem, so I did
# tar cvfM /dev/st0 /temp
it just passed with out asking for more tape or anything. It didnt return any error message.
But then when I tried to untar, it return with : Cannot extract fie is continue from another volume.
Do you have any idea? did it really run out of tape? Does tar with M option(multi-vol) should pause and ask for a new tape if it really ran out of space?
BTW, Im running kernel 2.4.20-18.9. The tape can hold 20 G, but tar fail when its been at 16 G.
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