Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:39:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Val <val@hcol.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Colorado T4000 Tape and tape backup in general Message-ID: <19980327123955.19913@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980326191440.19554A-100000@ns.hcol.net>; from Val on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 07:17:50PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980326191440.19554A-100000@ns.hcol.net>
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On Thu, 26 March 1998 at 19:17:50 -0600, Val wrote: > I had a tape backup sitting next to the computer for a while now. > It is detected on the scsi bus on the startup. > I wasn't using it much because the tar command would take forever to > backup about 2Gb of data, and after about 6-7hours would give some error > message. Which error message? > What is the best way to backup the server to this type of tape? tar should work fine. You would appear to have some other problem. Are the tapes OK? Otherwise it could be that the (lack of) speed is due to excessive retries. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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