Quantum tape drive

[David Kelly]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:38:43PM -0500, Jaime wrote:
> >
> > In the last episode (Jan 28), Jaime said:
> >>       /usr/bin/tar -cvpX /usr/local/etc/backups/skiplist-relative.txt -f /dev/sa0 -C / .

[...]

> Any other thoughts before I try to OS update and the larger block size?

You list -v as a tar option. Is tar sticking on a file?

Another question is whether or not tar could be getting caught in a hard
link or symbolic link infinite loop? Look for duplicates in the output.
uniq(1) should be of assistance. Perhaps uniq needs a sort(1) to
preprocess, I forget?

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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