I'm trying to backup my native GentooX Home v4.0 "G drive" install over a network, using my Sun Ultra5 (running Solaris 9) with an external DDS-2 tape drive. After setting up ssh, I use the following command to back up "/var"...
tar -czvf - /var | ssh root@sunserver "dd of=/dev/rmt/0cbn"
Everything seems fine. However, if I do the same to back up everything from root, I get an error after the tape has been writing overnight...
"tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors"
Anyone have any ideas? A "df -k" shows that only 2715128K is being used for GentooX, and a DDS-2 tape can definitely store this amount of data (4GB native).
I would have preferred to use "dump", but it seems dump doesn't support ReiserFS.