I could imagine some amount over 8 GB tape capacity, if the tape is hardware compressed, but 35 GB sounds insane. The utility is likely trying to copy the entire tape bit for bit gotten from the drive to the hard disk (ignoring everything about what it reads; like dd if=/dev/sda would do with a hard disk).
It would help if they knew what the heck they used to back it up, The utility could be doing it's own format, it could be compressed with any number of formats, etc. Did you try the same drive that wrote it? (Thinking heads off alignment.) Obviously, if the tape drive that wrote it went kafluey before it wrote the tape, there is no hope. If they have an older backup tape that they are confident was working correctly, you could try starting from there, at least you could definitely identify what they used for backup. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/04/2014 03:04 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > > >> Also, examine the restored data to make sure it makes sense. As I once >> found out the hard way, the backup system may have made an accurate copy >> of data that had already been corrupted on the hard drive. >> >> -- >> John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] >> > > > I've already concluded that this is futile. Nothing but gibberish. > > When the utility generates 35GB of ??? from an 8GB tape backing up a 4.2GB > disk, you know something ain't right. > > Howard > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
