@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #1 N Hi all,
I've been running Linux for almost a year now. I started with Slackware, moved to Red Hat 3.0.3 now I want to move to Debian. I will be moving Red Hat to another machine once I get Debian configured the way I want. I am having two problems getting things set up. One is related to Debian, the other is more Linux in general but I hope someone can get me pointed in the proper direction. First problem is about the backup utilities tob and taper. Up until recently, I have been able to backup my hard drives to tape (floppy tape drive using zftape v1.05) using a single 200 MB (uncompressed) tape. The drive is 1.6 GB and until recently it has not been too full. However, I have now reached the point where I need more than one tape and this is where my trouble started. When I use tob and get to the end of the first tape, afio doesn't prompt for another tape. All it is does it print a 'tape full' error for every remaining file. In /etc/tob.rc, I have the BACKUPCMD set to: BACKUPCMD='afio -oxZv -b 10240 -s0 -T 3k -G 9 $BACKUPDEV < $FILELIST' The -b 10240 was necessary because without it afio complains about a bad block size while writing to the tape. If I understand the man page for afio, -s0 should make afio pause when a tape fills. It doesn't. With -s0, afio behavior is the same. It keeps trying writing to the full tape. I tried using using taper (with zftape). When the tape fills up, taper chokes with a child segmentation error in a dialog box. If I click on the 'OK', taper just hangs. When I didn't fill the tape, taper would work just fine. I've seen folks mention on the list use both tob and taper with success, so I must be doing something wrong. Can someone give me a clue to what it is? :-) Thanks! Bob ... * ATP/Linux 1.42 * Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.