Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug

[bocek . pavel]

I made a mistake, there should be sudo -r instead of -c of course :-) tar -rMf 
/dev/st0 some_path/G*

By last good record I mean files starting with F. If I am not mistaken, when I 
want to append, it appends to end of last record which was this one. The tar 
then reads the tape from beginning and starts writing after end of the previous 
record (so I don't set the to the end of it manually). IIRC than it asked for 
one tape for writing other G- files and ended with error when it came uppon the 
14GB one.

It's this one: -rwxr-xr-x 1 nas nas 15015536189 2010-04-10 14:41 
/home/nas/PC_hry/GTA_IV.rar

For this run I use only DDS3, 125m/12 GB tapes. Output of env is: .tar=01;31:

> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Předmět: Re: [Bug-tar] Possible tar bug
> Datum: 28.12.2010 21:04:26
> ----------------------------------------
> On 12/27/2010 11:40 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> > I used to make one whole archive at once, backuping whole folder, but it 
> > tends
> to be problematic when some tape becomes bad (I have to make whole archive 
> again
> than).
> >
> > So now I backup files in the folder alphabetically from A to Z (and numbers
> first) because I can append from previous good record not having to start from
> beginning with tens of GB. I started with some older tar version from Ubuntu
> repository (1.20 or so) and:
> >
> > sudo tar -cMf /dev/st0 some_path/1*
> >
> > Then continued with letters up to G. It stucked with our error so I tried
> again:
> >
> > sudo tar -cMf /dev/st0 some_path/G*
> >
> > from last record. Still the same problem. Than I tried files starting with 
> > H,
> it took IIRC another one or two tapes (which worked fine so definitelly not 
> tape
> problem). After it I tried G again with no success. Upgraded to latest Ubuntu
> repository tar (1.21 I think), nothing, than manually installed latest tar 
> from
> source and discovered which file is problematic, still not able to append this
> single one.
>
> This makes it sound like it's not connected to the -r option at all,
> which is a surprise.
>
> When you write "from last record", what does that mean?  Does it
> mean that you executed this command:
>
> sudo tar -cMf /dev/st0 some_path/G*
>
> with an already-rewound tape, or that you did it without
> rewinding the tape, or what?  How many times did it ask for
> a new tape before it failed?  How long was the tape?  What
> file did it fail on, and what does "ls -l" say for that file?
>
> Also, what is the output of the following command?
>
> env | grep TAR
>
>
>