"Petcher, Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running SlackWare 12 with GNU tar 1.16.1 to throw a huge pile of
> servers' backup data onto multiple LTO-3 tapes. The --create phase works
> well, but when I rewind tapes and --diff the tape archive, the process
> always stops on a certain 10 GB *.tar.bz2 file. I sorted my logs by filesize
> and I see that there are no previous files larger than 3 GB.
Writing data compressed by a tar implementation to a real tape drive is
always a bad idea.
Is GNU tar unable to deal with EOT detection while writing to a HW compressed
tape?
Jörg
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