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@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Hi all > > > > 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… > > > > 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. > > > > Any ideas anyone? > > > > Cheers > > R > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG website: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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