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>I don't now, what's wrong. tar or kbackup makes no backup. The
>tapedrive don't work.
>Sadhunathan has more luck ;)
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>Servus
> Peter
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true, i had more luck! possibly you mentioned this before but,
were you also able to try the tape drive under windows and
verify that it does actually work? there is a slim possibility
its not installed right, but it sounds like you know what you
are doing so probably not. it may be a defective drive though.
by the way, i had another problem that i didnt mention on the
list .. i was getting backups part way done but then a failure
in the middle, bad sector errors. i thought maybe i was getting
overruns due to inability of my floppy controller to handle the
transfer rate .. tried several times.. then i went to the store and
bought a new tape and tried it and no errors at all. so anyway,
defective tape, it was a physical problem after all. this is one
of the 1 gig native sony tapes.
now a new problem has arrisen. but first here is the success story:
yesterday i backed up a partition
which has about 600 meg on it, no errors were seen in the messages
file, then i restored the backup (done with tar) to a new subdirectory,
then did a check sum on every original, and every backed-up file, and
it came out a perfect match. yipee! proving i can backup and restore.
i am under the impression that tar -d simply compares the directory
entries, and not really every entire file byte for byte, and i wanted to
be sure. gold star for ftape.
now this morning i am trying to use the tape drive again and am getting
i/o errors and it is saying, warning, tape not formatted. including with
another new (1.85 gig native) iomega tape and also the sony tape i had used
before which
had errors in the middle (which is obviously formatted). sheesh! ftape worked
fine yesterday, i changed nothing, not working today???
this isn't a good sign because, the files on my web server are growing at
about 10 meg per day and i have to leave town for 2 months, and i want to
leave a tape in the drive doing incremental backups for that time (probably
with dump, won't be tar) .. but if the drive works one day and not the next,
hmmm... am i going to have to reboot constantly? does it confuse the drive
to leave a tape in it while rebooting? and of course i wont be able to
power off the machine when i'm 2,000 miles away.
oh well, i havent really looked into this yet, it just happened, i'll let you
know what i find out. sorry to ramble on!
sadhu
