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- From: auhl@fzi.de (Axel Uhl)
- Subject: Re: gtarp won't backup to sequence of floppies
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.141201.27191@fzi.de>
- Keywords: gtarp, GTAK, streamer backup
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- Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:12:01 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article 5636 Michael Strasser writes
-
- >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?
-
- I'm using gtarp for backing up a HPFS volume to tape. On my system neither the
- -W nor the -d, -A, -r and -u option works. Does anyone know about it and
- will a fix for gtarp be released? Or lies the problem in the nature of a tape
- backup?
-
- Axel (auhl@fzi.de).
-