Ah. You do you have the tape set to fixed blocksizes?
Try
mt -f /dev/nrsa0 stat
If the blocksize field is nonzero, try setting
mt -f /dev/nrsa0 blocksize 0
And see if that helps. Sigh. I need to revisit this area and ignore the folks
who've been telling me to not fix EOT handling.
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Sam wrote:
> I have tried to use dump with this command:
>
> dump -0au -h 0 -d 61000 -f /dev/nrsa0 /home
>
> When what appears to be the end of tape is reached I get this error message:
>
> DUMP: write error 3725120 blocks into volume 1
>
> and a choice to restart or abort. I've done this a number of times with the
> same error message except for the block number. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks, Sam
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Jacob [mailto:mjacob@feral.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 8:50 PM
> To: Sam
> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: one filesystem two tapes
>
>
>
> Use dump(8) so it splits across multiple tapes.
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Sam wrote:
>
> > I have a file system larger than can be held on a dds-2 tape. is there any
> > way to back it up so that what does not fit on one tape fits on the next.
> if
> > there is a way how do you do it,
> > Thanks
> > Sam
> >
> >
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