Tar problems

[Carl Yost Jr.]

LOL don't mind the arctic91 address, was logged into my brothers e-mail. All when I received that error it turned out the tape drive was going bad, and wasn't writing the tar correctly to the tape.

   Carl




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Justin Bennett" <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com>
Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:08:14 -0500 (EST)

>I've never seen this one before, anyone had experience with this?
>
>
>tar: mishome/dkane/save/templux_onsite/wip/som4160l.rdf: Wrote only 23552
>of 65536 bytes
>tar: Skipping to next header
>tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>mishome/dkane/save/templux_onsite/wip/som4230.fmx
>tar: mishome/dkane/save/templux_onsite/wip/som4230.fmx: Wrote only 0 of
>65536 bytes
>tar: Skipping to next header
>mishome/dkane/save/templux_onsite/wip/Som4231.RDF
>tar: mishome/dkane/save/templux_onsite/wip/Som4231.RDF: Wrote only 0 of
>65536 bytes
>tar: Skipping to next header
>mishome/dkane/save/templux_onsite/wip/som4240.fmx
>tar: mishome/dkane/save/templux_onsite/wip/som4240.fmx: Wrote only 0 of
>65536 bytes
>tar: Skipping to next header
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>[1]+  Exit 2                  tar -xvf /dev/st0 --blocking-factor 128
>
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>Justin Bennett
>Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
>Network Administrator
>Dynabrade Inc.
>8989 Sheridan Dr
>Clarence, NY 14031
>716-631-0100 ext 215
>
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