Debian says that some tapes I put in have a bad header, and
there's an
io error, I'm using a T3000 floppy tape drive, colorado backup software in
windows version 3.11 (meaning the the version of colorado backup, not
windows I use it under windows-98). My system backup worked fine after I
formatted a tape in windows (the windows backup). Now I try to use ftformat
in linux and I get bad header errors, do I need to format it in colorado
backup in windows, or what do I do?
The last time I tried backup, my system went down after doing tar czf
/dev/hda2 /dev/tape, /dev/hda2 is my whole linux system, I used no swap as
I have 256 mb of ram, I use debian 2.2 potato. Can ftape be used on a boot
disk? Do I just copy ftape on the disk somewhere, (modify a slackware boot
root pair) and put ftape.o on it, and copy /dev/rft3, and the symbolic link
tape to the disk, and make sure to have tar and gunzip, most probably do,
would it restore right?
