Ahhh, I can relate to that... (here we go, old war stories...) Same thing, but for me it was a QIC02 drive... Couldn't for the life of me figure out why I couldn't restore, and why the backup had something like 40Mb more than I thought it should...
I think I crashed the box about 10 times before I started excluding stuff from the restore.. Took until 4am to fix a problem that should have taken 30 minutes when I visited the customer at just before 5pm... A little knowledge and all that... Cheers, Chris H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Volker Kuhlmann" > When I was a Linux newbie and had a DAT drive to play with, I thought I > back up my Linux system and typed "tar -cf /dev/XXX /". To make sure, > I restored it and typed "mt rewind; tar -xpf /dev/XXX". Funnily enough, > part way through the restore would hang, no matter how often I tried, > so I gave up. It was some while later until I found out why.
