Re: [cobalt-users] scsi tape backup now: tar

[Jim Dory <engineer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Taylor wrote:

> Jim,
> I am backing up a Qube3 to a DDS3 tape drive(24GB) using
> tar. Seems to work fine. In the past I have used dump and
> restore also. The parameters take a little to figure out,
> but aren't real tough. I downloaded "mt" from
> sourceforge.net so I could control the tape drive.
>
>                                     Jeff Taylor
>                                     Stellar Technologies
>  

I'm looking for 'mt' (sourceforge is being difficult for me at the 
moment) but I followed the knowledge base instructions for tar and got 
errors.

Here's what I did:
tar cf /dev/tape /etc

Then:
tar df /dev/tape

and the shell echoed what appears to be all the files but there was, for 
each file something like this:

tar: etc/ptmp: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

When I do:
tar -tvf /dev/tape it lists all the files, but now I have no confidence 
because of above warnings. Anyone spot what I'm missing?

cheers,

--
Jim D.