tar dies on making tape backup

[Derek Ragona]

Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024
and use ASCII headers (-c)

         -Derek


At 05:18 PM 7/24/2006, Jaime wrote:
>         I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape
>drive.  I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and
>DDS-4) tapes for years.  The command now appears to work for a while
>and then dies with this message about 2.5 hours into the process:
>
>archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?!  This can't happen.
>
>         Any idea what this means?
>
>         I'm using:
>$ uname -a
>FreeBSD atlas.cairodurham.org 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed
>Jun 28 11:27:09 EDT 2006     root at atlas.cairodurham.org:/usr/obj/usr/ 
>src/sys/SMP  i386
>
>         This is my first FreeBSD 6.x system, my first SMP kernel, and my
>first DLT drive on a FreeBSD system.  Using Google, I couldn't find
>any answers that were useful.  (Just a few dead threads from various
>forums and mailing lists.)
>
>                                                         Thanks in advance,
>                                                         Jaime
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