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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: backups on 386/ix - some pronblems using GNUtar; any hints?
Keywords: backups, 386ix, GNUtar, tape streamer
Message-ID: <1989Dec5.012032.2877@virtech.uucp>
Date: 5 Dec 89 01:20:32 GMT
References: <481@hades.OZ>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <481@hades.OZ>, greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) writes:
> 1) When the tape is completely full, GNUtar reports "error opening
> directory ...." for every directory not yet covered. At least, this seems
> to be what's happening. If the tape drive is 120Mb, and the filesystem is
> 115Mb, how come the tape fills up at all anyway when doing a full dump???.

This is probably because you have some sparse files on the file system.  When
they get backed up, they take up the logical amount of space, not the physical
amount of space taken up on the file system.



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