I Apologize for my mistake.
the problem was trivial.
On the backup host I issued the command tar -czf, it works if I replace it
with tar -cf.
I was trying to open a tar compressed archive without the -z option.
sorry.

Rick



On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, der Mouse wrote:

> > tar -tv -f /dev/st0
> > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive.
> > tar: Skipping to next file header...
>
> > I can't explain what's going wrong, perhaps the bloc ksize is wrong?
>
> Do you have copytape?  (If not, I can send it to you.)  If you could
> use copytape to read the first, oh, say, 64K or so of the tape and then
> get the resulting file to me somehow (email attachment, put it up for
> ftp or for web fetch, or we could arrange a direct netcat connection
> maybe), I'll be glad to look at it and see if I can guess anything.  I
> know a bit about tar archives....
>
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