[Bug-tar] "this volume is out of sequence" on restore from LS120 diskettes

[Bdale Garbee]

One of the users of my Debian packaging of tar reports a problem with
restoring from a multi-volume LS120 diskette backup, as per the
attached.

Thoughts?

Bdale

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> Bug#475895: tar: Error "this volume is out of sequence" on restore	from LS120 diskettes
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:31:38 +0100
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> Package: tar
> Version: 1.19-3
> Severity: normal
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> Backing up to an LS120 (Laser Servo) diskette drive:
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>  cd ~/backupthislot
>  tar cMF /dev/hdd ./
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> This will perform the backup and periodically ask the user to change 
> diskette, until the backup completes.
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> Restoring from the backup:
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>  cd ~/restoredirectory
>  tar xMf /dev/hdd ./
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> The first diskette restores normally. A prompt appears to insert the 
> next disk in sequence.
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> When the next disk is inserted, an error occurs: "This volume is out of 
> sequence".
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> The error is consistent, and there is no way to restore the contents of 
> the backup from beyond the first diskette.
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
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> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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> Versions of packages tar depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
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> tar recommends no packages.
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> -- no debconf information
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