[KLUG Members] backing up

[Adam Williams]

>>>I am having a little trouble backing up.  I am using tar as follows:
>>>tar -cvzpf /dev/st0 -T /root/backup/whattobackup
>>>when I restore the files with :
>>>tar -xvzpf /dev/st0 it restores and then hangs.  When I try backup and then
>>>restore a small amount of data it completely hangs and fails on the restore.
>>>(control c stops the hang.)
>>What kernel version are you running?  I noticed some strange behavior with
>>tar and some of the later kernels that I haven't had time to investigate.
>[root@srv1 bin]# uname -a
>Linux srv1 2.2.19-7.0.1 #1 Tue Apr 10 01:56:16 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

So this is a late RedHat 7.0 system?  That is the OS I am using with
this exact same drive.