Thanks Willem, I had a look, but it seems that Amanda uses a "holding disk", which is what I do not have. I wonder if it is possible to adjust the buffering in tar - it does not write continuously, so it might be persuaded to wait for a network connection ... Thanks again, Peter -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Willem van der Walt<willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, 18 June 2004 4:19 PM To: Peter Smith Cc: RedHat List Subject: Re: Tape writing software? Look at amanda. I think it is included with 7.3, if not, it is with later versions of redhat. hth Willem On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Peter Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server with a DLT tape. It runs RedHat 7.3. > > There are other servers on the network (100tx ethernet) with drives that are > mounted as smbfs shares. > > I am unable to write directly to the tape from a smbfs share using tar, > presumably because the network couldn't keep up. The error was "tar: Error > exit delayed from previous errors" , which is not a lot of help. > > I had hoped to add an IDE disk as a tape buffer, but there is no standard > IDE support on the motherboard. I cannot spare 50GB of SCSI disk for > buffering. > > Is there any more sophisticated tape writing software which can handle > buffering correctly? > > Regards, > Peter Smith > WBM Pty Ltd. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list !DSPAM:40d289a573736755818516! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
