Re: Salvaging a 40GB GNU Tar Backup

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:40:19 -0500
> From: "Ewing, Timothy K." <address@hidden>
> 
> So my question is, since the backup using 2906 and 4mm tape drive
> are good, what is it about the restore which went afoul?  It seems
> that that combination of equipment is the culprit and in ordinary
> circumstances I would have never experienced this problem.

The only think that I can think of, offhand, is that the driver didn't
return the correct error code for end-of-tape for your equipment.  If
you can use a debugger to see what errno was when the read failed,
perhaps that will help you see what the problem was.

I'm CC:ing this to bug-tar, which is where bug reports like this ought
to go -- other people read that mailing list and may be able to help.