Tim - thanks, trying that out now - my brutab did have the tape specified as a 12Gb volume - I'm still a little confused as to why I could't get past the 12Gb barrier when using tar though - I had not specified any archive size options there and yet the backup still bombed out at around 11.8Gb... I do like BRU - a lot, just that we've only just recently upgraded our file server (well - added a newer fasterone actually) and only have BRU 2000 PE which doesn't allow us to do NFS backups - and we can't afford the $300 upgrade fee just as yet... so was hoping to be able to get around this by using tar for now... cheers, dan. On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Tim Jones wrote: > Dan Horth wrote: > > > now - as I said I have S6 set to off - so DDS pass through is disabled, > > DDS-DC is enalbed, but the tape still wont go beyond 12Gb. > > > > I have been using bru, tar and mt to contorl the tape drive. > > Be sure to check your /etc/brutab file. By default, the brutab file has > an EXAMPLE device that is set up for a 12GB DDS-3 drive. Only, the size > is set to 12GT. This means that BRU will always stop writing at 12G, > prompting for a new volume (or running the mountcmd and unmountcmd > scripts). To make sure that BRU uses the entire tape, set size=0 in > that device entry (or override the size with a '-s 0' on the BRU command > line).
