Re: xfsdump problems (fwd)

[Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Loftis <mloftis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> FWIW -- in the past I've had to pipe through dd on the remote machine to 
> get dump-to-tape to work.  This was using tar and dump commands though...

All these things remind me that I had lots of trouble with SCSI tape drives
used for dumping Sybase databases on Linux to a tape.
Writing with 'tar' usually worked pretty fine. I'm under the impression that
'xfsdump' and Sybase's 'backupserver' are triggering some sort of bug in
the Linux SCSI and/oder tape driver that gets circumvented in certain
situations (or with 'tar'),

Martin.
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