There is a separate issue which I think only applies if the backup
itself has over 2^32 blocks written to tape so that the next tape
starting block has wrapped.

I haven't tried to reproduce this issue as I do not have any systems
with anything like that amount of data to test with plus I suspect it
will take a very long time to reproduce.

This doesn't affect this bug which, as per testcase.sh, can be
reproduced with only 10MB of data being dumped.

I'm not reporting this other issue unless/until I can reproduce it
somehow - particularly as I believe it will require a format change to
the tape header and I backup via a pipe to a file rather than a tape
device so I would never hit this even with 12T of data to backup.

12TB sparse files might make this reproduceable - I haven't tried, nor
have I looked in detail yet how sparse files are represented on tape.

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