Re: [Bug-tar] Problems restoring from multi-volume DLT tape archi ve

[Leonard Sitongia]

Leonard Sitongia wrote:
> It's going to be an hour more before it gets to the end of the tape, 
> so that I can see if upgrading tar fixes the problem of the lost file 
> between the two tapes.  But, I wonder if it is going to end like 
> before, just finishing at the end of the first tape, without prompting 
> for the 2nd tape, because it thinks it is already on the 2nd tape.
The new tar on Linux made the situation worse.  As before, when it 
finishes reading the first tape, it doesn't prompt for the second tape, 
it just ends.  So, I load the second tape, and run tar, and it says:

# ~sitongia/bin/tar -xv -M -b 128 -f /dev/nst0
20050421/20050421.121910.fts
/home/sitongia/bin/tar: 20050421/20050421.121910.fts: Cannot extract -- 
file is continued from another volume
/home/sitongia/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/home/sitongia/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Previously, it would give the error about the continued file, and then 
continue reading the tape.  With tar 1.19, I cannot read the second tape.

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==Leonard E. Sitongia
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  National Center for Atmospheric Research
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