I manually tarred stuff onto a blank tape and was able to successfully read the tar back off the tape.
The commands issued were something along the lines of: # Plop in a tape % mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind % dd of=/dev/nst0 blah blah blah..fake tape header^D % mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind % mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 % tar cv *.* | dd of=/dev/nst0 # Great..I can see the tar files # Dump the contents and write to the 2nd file marker. % mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind % mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 % dd if=/dev/nst0 of=blah.tar % mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind % mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 2 % tar cv *.*|dd of=/dev/nst0 % mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind % mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 2 % dd if=/dev/nst0 | tar tvf - # I can see the other files and the new blah.tar file I added robin On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > I am going to try tarring to a blank tape manually and see what happens. > > This will answer the question regarding 2.4.4b1. Make sure to tar > multiple times. > >
