It has been a very long time since I've dealt with tape backups. The one
thing I do remember is depending on the mechanism used to do the backup,
you could end up with sym link recursion.
You don't have symlinks on you file system do you?
I use to make sure my backups always rewind the tapes regardless and the
first block written would be a text file index of what else was going onto
the tape, meaning it was easier to skip to relevant blocks.
M
On Tue, 8 Oct 2024, 13:17 rmluglist2--- via Hampshire, <
hampshire@???> wrote:
> Hi all
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> OK – I’m not having much luck with these tape backups – a 20Tb HDD is
> looking very favourable right now but I’ll press on for the moment…
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> Does anyone know why a (LTO4) drive would report a tape being full when
> “it isn’t”? It wrote about 470Gb perfectly well on a completely blank
> tape then errored out with “No space left on device” on a brand new (in
> cellophane) blank tape. I know this thanks to du -h on the source data
> and then reading the recorded data back with dd which reports the file size
> for every file it reads back on the tape.
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> Any ideas anyone?
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> Cheers
>
> R
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