What version of tar is your Cygwin including? $ tar --version -dP
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard Sitongia Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 3:12 PM To: bug-tar@gnu.org Subject: [Bug-tar] Problems restoring from multi-volume DLT tape archive Hello, I'm testing writing a multi-volume Super DLT tape on Windows XP using Cygwin's tar and reading those tapes on Linux using tar there. The writing seemed to go normally, and I was prompted for the second tape: $ tar -c -M -b 128 -f /dev/nst0 g/20050421/ Prepare volume #2 for `/dev/nst0' and hit return: (loaded 2nd tape and hit return) When I was reading, the first tape read fine. At the end of the tape, it simply finished, there was no prompt for the second tape: # tar -xv -M -b 128 -f /dev/nst0 20050419/ 20050419/20050419.111408.fts 20050419/20050419.111424.fts ... 20050420/20050420.180332.fts 20050420/20050420.180346.fts (just ended here, didn't ask for another tape, so I loaded second tape) [EMAIL PROTECTED] tape]# tar -xv -M -b 128 -f /dev/nst0 20050421/20050421.121910.fts tar: 20050421/20050421.121910.fts: Cannot extract -- file is continued from another volume 20050421/20050421.121927.fts ... I've read a few messages in the archive about multi-volume problems. Should this work, or is it a know problem? Thanks for your help. -- ==Leonard E. Sitongia High Altitude Observatory National Center for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (303)497-2454 fax: (303)497-1589
