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From: herder@myab.se (Jan Herder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: backups on 386/ix - some pronblems using GNUtar; any hints?
Keywords: backups, 386ix, GNUtar, tape streamer
Message-ID: <478@myab.se>
Date: 6 Dec 89 18:03:23 GMT
References: <481@hades.OZ>
Reply-To: herder@myab.UUCP (Jan Herder)
Organization: Myab Gothenburg, Sweden
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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???.

If the tape is not streaming you don't get 120Mb. Everytime it has to 
stop you loose a some bytes. GNUtar also have some overhead so dumping
a 115Mb can take more.
    
    When the tape is full the driver is returning another errorcode
than GNUtar expects. Findout what errorcode and fix GNUtar.

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