The Mylex SCSI card and Redhat 5.1 recognized the tape
drive and I was off to the races...
Next I popped in a tape (a 120m dds-2) and did a simple
tar cvf /dev/st0 / (as root)
so I would at least get the entire machine backed up
until I could figure out a reliable system.
The sytem has a 4.5 gig scsi drive with not much on it yet
except the standard install of RH 5.1.
I tried this twice and got the following error
...
bru/tunebru
bru/unmountcmd.sh
kill
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
It then dumps back into the shell. This happens after it's
already written a lot of files to the tape drive.
The next day I tried the same thing except I ran
tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc /home /usr /var /www
This ran both time without a hitch. I have tried to backup the
whole drive again yet. I know it may be a mute point since I
don't need to backup everything since I was able to back up
the important files and can restore the rest from the original CD,
but I'd still like to know what might have happened.
Any help or insights would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
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