Tape backup using tar

John Horne john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk
Fri Aug 12 11:52:13 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:26 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:17 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 August 2005 12:49 pm, Stuart Bailey wrote:
> > > > >> What version of tar please?
> > > > >
> > > > >(GNU tar) 1.14
> > > >
> > > > Bingo!
> > > >
> > > > tar has a rather spotted history, and 1.14 is known on the amanda list
> > > > to be broken. 1.13-19, 1.13-25, and 1.15-1 are kown to work
> > > > correctly. 1.13 plain is busted, and 1.14 only lasted a month or two.
> > > > Nuke it, and go get either the older 1.13-25, or 1.15-1.
> > >
> > > Do you know if this will become a yum update?
> > It must be:
> > 
> > [tpolzin at excaliber ~]$ rpm -q tar
> > tar-1.15.1-7.FC4
> 
> The OP is using FC3, for which the latest update is tar-1.14-5.FC3.
> 
> I'd suggest getting the FC4 SRPM and rebuilding it.
> 
Jumping in here, we have FC3 servers using tar 1.14-5 for backups with
no problems at all. Systems are HP/Compaq (DL360's mainly) with HP tape
deck. We have cciss scsi and have to run the following before using the
tape deck:

  echo 'engage scsi' >/proc/driver/cciss/cciss0

Perhaps the OP has to do something similar?



John.

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