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

[Joerg Schilling]

Leonard Sitongia <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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)

I thought I did rreply, but I might have missed to do so.

What problems did you have on Cygwin?

Jörg

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