Rick Stevens wrote:
Craig Goodyear wrote:
> I have recently updated my FC3 kernel from 2.6.9-1.667 to
> 2.6.10-1.766_FC3. The system has had all available updates applied.
> I am using a Seagate STT8000A ATAPI tape drive for backup. I am
> loading the ide-scsi module. Prior to the update, tar and dump both
> worked without any problems using this tape drive.
>
> Since the kernel update, tar and dump appear to write the files to the
> tape drive: no error messages are generated during the write and the
> tape is positioned at the correct block following the write. However,
> I am not able to restore any of the backup files to the hard disk.
> Using tar, no errors are returned, and no files are restored. Using
> restore, the following error is generated: "restore: Tape is not a
> dump tape."
dump format and tar format are not the same thing. restore only
restores dump tapes. If you tried to restore a tar tape, then that
message makes absolute sense. To see what's on a tar tape:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
tar tf /dev/st0
To restore a tar tape with tar:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
tar xf /dev/st0
Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry I didn't make the original post more
clear. I am using the above commands to try to list or extract the
contents of the tar files on tape. I don't have any trouble extracting
the contents of tar files that were made with the previous 2.6.9 kernel.
The problem exist when using tar with the 2.6.10 kernel.
Craig