[BackupPC-users] More clarification- archiving straight to tape

[Joanne C. <j....@ox...>]

Hi All,

Thanks for the help with understanding how archives work. I'm now trying to stream them straight to tape, but having a few issues with it. If I set $Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'gzip' then streaming straight to tape ($Conf{ArchiveDest} = '/dev/nst0') fails with the following error:

Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split  serverlanc1 6 /bin/gzip .gz 0 /dev/nst0 5 *
Xfer PIDs are now 8987
Writing tar archive for host serverlanc1, backup #6 to /dev/nst0
Done: 1093 files, 556537859 bytes, 29 dirs, 0 specials, 0 errors

gzip: stdout: Invalid argument
Executing: /bin/sh -c -cf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h serverlanc1 -n 6 -s \* . | /bin/gzip >> /dev/nst0
Error: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress or split failed
Archive failed: Error: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress or split failed

If I set $Conf{ArchiveComp} = 'none' then the job seems to succeed, but when I try and see what's on the tape using "tar tvf /dev/nst0" I get the following error:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

So- can I either fix it so that I can create gz files on the tape, or is the second option actually giving me valid files, in which case how do I read them?

Many thanks

Jo

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Joanne Cook
Senior IT Support and Development
Oxford Archaeology (North)
01524 880212
http://thehumanjourney.net



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