tar problem on tru64 5.1A

[amer_3]

Hi

im trying to backup or read files on my tape useing tar but it keep gives me I/O error.
wheni tryed vdump it worked fine "write & read".

i have tryed my tape on another machine but the same, i have Es40 system, tru64 v5.1A.
can any one help me.

[Johan Brusche]

Do you have this I/O-error when tarring from any filesystem ?
If not do you have files in a particular filesystem larger than 2 GB ?

If files larger than 2GB, did you try the "E"(Extended Headers) commandswitch on tar.

Rgds,
___ Johan.

[amer_3]

hi

first in my old system it did not take large files. but now im trying small files like /etc/hosts.
i dont get any I/O error when moving from filesystem to filesystem.

my problem is with the tar.
thanks

[Johan Brusche]

Let's start again...and provide some detail ..

whereis tar ; which tar ?

/sbin/tar or /usr/bin/tar ?

So "tar cvf /var/tmp/temp.tar /etc/hosts" works, but
"tar cvf /dev/tape/tape0 /etc/hosts" gives I/O-error

What is the syntax of the tar command that gives this I/O-error ?

What is the output of the command,
file /dev/ntape/tape0

etc....

[amer_3]

hi

thanks alot for your replay, the problem has been solved, it seems there was some conflect on the system i have restarted the the cluser and tryed the command

tar -cvEf /dev/ntape/tape0 /backup/ora1

and it worked fine.
i just have a quastion the backup took alot of time, the size of the file is arround 9GB and it took arround 2 hours to finsh the tar, is there any problem.

thanks alot

[Ivan Ferreira]

The backup time depends of the device type that you are using and the type of files that you are backing up. If you are backing up many small files, it will take a long time. Also, depends of the system load.

You can try differents block sizes to get the optimum performance. You should use vdump for backup.

[amer_3]

thanks alot for all

[amer_3]

thanks