[Sheflug] Problem with tar

[Robert E B Holland BEng CEng FIEE <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hope you have / had a good meeting this afternoon - sorry I couldn't make it.

Have been trying to set up a SCSI DAT drive for a while to do some backups & 
am having difficulty verifying what is on the tape...

Have a script which does operates along the following lines...

	tar --create \
	--verbose \
	--file=/dev/st0 \
	--files-from=<file> \  <file> is list of things to include
	--exclude-from=<file> \ <file> is list of things to exclude
	> <logfile> 

	tar --compare \
	--file=/dev/st0 \
	> <differences>

The create seems OK, but when I run the compare I seem to get...

tar: file_details: Warning: cannot stat: no such file or directory

for what appears to be every file.

Any thoughts anyone?

Have tried out essentially the same commands to a disk archive file & that 
seems OK.

I also gather the --verify option of tar may not work on some drives - is 
this true of DAT drives? As far as I can tell --verify should work with DAT.
 
Thanks

Bob Holland
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