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- From: ednstras@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Michael Strasser)
- Subject: gtarp won't backup to sequence of floppies
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- Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
- Date: 28 Aug 92 00:49:03 GMT
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- I am unable to get gtarp to save the contents of a directory tree to
- a set of disks (using the -M option).
-
- The following commands produce the following error messages once the first
- disk is full:
-
- gtarp -c -f b:mjstar -M mjs
- /bin/gtar: write to b:mjstar short 10240 bytes
-
- because gtarp ran out of space on the disk. Then, trying Kai Uwe Rommel's
- suggestion of using the -S option to specify archive size:
-
- gtarp -c -f b:mjstar -M -S 1180K mjs
- /bin/gtar: write to b:mjstar.002 short 10240 bytes
-
- This latter message appears because gtarp can't fit mjstar.002 on the same
- disk as mjstar.001, which is 1180K in size. gtarp is not prompting for
- insertion of another disk after mjstar.001 is written.
-
- The -W (verify) option causes a crash of its own before any files are
- written:
-
- gtarp -c -f b:mjstar -M -S 1180K -W mjs
- /bin/gtar: could not allocate memory for diff buffer of 20 bytes
-
- Also, I have found that the -G (GNU special incremental format) option
- doesn't work:
-
- gtarp -c -f b:mjstar -M -S 1180K -G mjs
- Couldn't re-allocate memory
-
- with nothing written to b:mjstar.001.
-
- Has anyone succeeded where I (and others) have failed?
-
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