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

[Leonard Sitongia]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Star uses a different data structure concept that cannot fail and star does not
> do an integrity check when extracting GNU tar multi-volume archives. Did you 
> try to use star for extraction:
>   
I did try using star for my situation.  I was not able to get it to work 
in Cygwin.  I reported this to you and did not hear back.  I have 
switched back to trying to get this to work with GNU tar.  I am now 
trying by specifying a fixed tape length

tar -cv -i -M -L 157286400 -b 128 -f /dev/nst0 d/20050419 d/20050420 
g/20050421

(I know that -M is implied by -L)

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