I am using Sun Solaris 5.9. I want to take backup of 3 folders which are 50 GB in size totally using tar command on tapes. I am having DAT 72 tape. After initiating tar command (tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0n /tmp/dir1/ /tmp/dir2/ /tmp/dir3/), tarring is stopped after 10 hrs (approx) and i am getting an error like
"tar: write error: unexpected EOF".
I am sorry, previously i didn't mentioned clearly. By using this tape options /dev/rmt/0c , it is mentioned that files can be compressed (c option). but it is not working. I found in a website.
Oh. That c in the device name of the tape drive requests hardware compression. Some tape drives have compession built-in and this is how you use it. But most tape drives do not have this type of comression.