I'm trying to make a backup of a 6 Gb file in an IBM 3490 tape subsystem with 19-track tapes. I'm doing the following with tar :
tar -cf /dev/tape/0768/char/rewinding filename --multi-volume --new-volume-script=/home/user/next.sh --totals In order to create the backup and change the tapes avoiding pressing enter we added an script called next.sh where we have: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$cat next.sh #!/bin/sh /bin/mt -f /dev/tape/0768/char/nonrewinding rewoff sleep 40 exit 0 everything goes ok until the 3rd tape but when it switches to the fourth it unexpectedly ends dropping this message: Total bytes written: 1300162560 (1.2GB, 1.4MB/s) tar: /dev/tape/0768/char/rewinding: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Has somebody had a problem like this. Thanks _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La mejor conexisn a internet y 25MB extra a tu correo por $100 al mes. http://net.yahoo.com.mx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
