All,

I have done these many times so that is not my issue.

My issue is that I ejected tape #2 that was full like normal but when it asked for the next tape (#3) I accidentally hit return before putting in the new tape.

My question is when or if I have to restore this backup will it not finish the restore because it will be looking for tape #3 that does not exist?

Thanks in advance!

I don't think there's enough information here to answer. What happened after the point where you forgot to insert the tape? I mean, it would eventually detect that there was no media, right?

Rather than proceed with a question mark no the whole subject of that archive, why not just create a new archive where you don't forget to insert all the tapes?

I was going to start over but thought I would just pose the question to the forum first to see if anyone had experienced this before.

As far as what happened this is what happened.

Prompt read this:

Prepare volume #3 for `/dev/nst0' and hit return:

I hit return by accident.

prompt immediately came back with this:

Prepare volume #4 for `/dev/nst0' and hit return:

I inserted tape waited a few minuted then hit return. It wrote out data to tape #3 but I think the tar thinks it is tape #4.

I may let it finish and then restore just to find out what will happen.

Sounds like the script or whatever did not anticipate that form of error and then just proceeded to the next step. Right, my guess is either one chunk is missing either in the middle or at the end.

Was not a script was just using straight tar command.

sudo tar -cMpvf /dev/nst0 /backups