Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:18:40 -0400 From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar dies on making tape backup Message-ID: <3ABD124B-04D2-4861-84A1-6EC27F1466D2@snowmoon.com>
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I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and DDS-4) tapes for years. The command now appears to work for a while and then dies with this message about 2.5 hours into the process: archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?! This can't happen. Any idea what this means? I'm using: $ uname -a FreeBSD atlas.cairodurham.org 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jun 28 11:27:09 EDT 2006 root@atlas.cairodurham.org:/usr/obj/usr/ src/sys/SMP i386 This is my first FreeBSD 6.x system, my first SMP kernel, and my first DLT drive on a FreeBSD system. Using Google, I couldn't find any answers that were useful. (Just a few dead threads from various forums and mailing lists.) Thanks in advance, Jaime
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