On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:43:55PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi All !
> 
> I had a issue with a tar command with one of my customers, the same
> below listed command works fine for me but it doesnot seem to work for
> one of my customer,
> 
> Please advice
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> [amanda@indus amanda]$ tar -cvf /dev/nst0 foldera
> > foldera/
> > foldera/amanda.conf
> > foldera/disklist
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ tar -tvf /dev/nst0
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ tar -tvf /dev/nst0
> > tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot read: Input/output error
> > tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ tar -tvf /dev/nst0
> > drwxr-xr-x amanda/disk       0 2005-04-01 13:35:46 foldera/
> > -rw-r--r-- amanda/disk   17822 2005-04-01 13:33:22 foldera/amanda.conf
> > -rw-r--r-- amanda/disk    5490 2005-04-01 13:33:22 foldera/disklist
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ tar -rvf /dev/nst0 folder
> > foldera  folderb
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ tar -rvf /dev/nst0 folderb
> > folderb/
> > folderb/amanda.conf
> > folderb/disklist
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$ tar -tvf /dev/nst0
> > drwxr-xr-x amanda/disk       0 2005-04-01 13:35:46 foldera/
> > -rw-r--r-- amanda/disk   17822 2005-04-01 13:33:22 foldera/amanda.conf
> > -rw-r--r-- amanda/disk    5490 2005-04-01 13:33:22 foldera/disklist
> > drwxr-xr-x amanda/disk       0 2005-04-01 13:36:24 folderb/
> > -rw-r--r-- amanda/disk   17834 2005-04-01 13:33:55 folderb/amanda.conf
> > -rw-r--r-- amanda/disk    5288 2005-04-01 13:33:55 folderb/disklist
> > [amanda@indus amanda]$
>

Unless I miss something, you show a correctly running series of commands.

How about showing the error so we can analyze it?


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