On 17/03/17 10:23, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Anyway, the OP mentioned using cleaning tape (twice?), no result.
oh, I missed that.
Hi everyone, thanks for all the responses. So many in fact I will just answer them all in one message. Yes I tried a universal HP cleaning cartridge and a LTO3 Quantum cleaning cartridge and this made no difference. The drive Clean LED had not come on. I have 3 other tape drives on the same SCSI controller and I have no issue with any of them. Yes I have a terminator on the end of the cable (It came on the cable). I am backing up using tar -cvWf "/srv/folder1" "/srv/folder2" "/srv/folder3" "/srv/folder4" etc... I tried a large 200GB ish backup: (just one folder e.g. tar -cvWf "/srv/folder1") and this has worked. It seems to fail when I specify lots of files. The only problem here is the folder does not fit on one LTO3 cartridge. This leads me back to two questions I asked earlier in the year which I had no success in resolving. 1. How do I verify tar and split between multiple tapes at the same time when W and m don't work together? 2. How do I turn on hardware compression on a tape drive in linux (what command)? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org