At 04:50 PM 1/11/01 +0100, Jens Bech Madsen wrote:
>Denise Ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > There was a huge amount of output - so I will only forward you part
> > of the dump summary from the Amanda Mail Report -
> >
> > ? DUMP: More than 32 block read errors from 134577504
> > ? DUMP: This is an unrecoverable error.
> > ? DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured
> > | DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
> > sendbackup: error [/sbin/dump returned 3]
> > \--------
>
>Looks like a failing disk to me.
I would suspect the same thing. I occasionally get similar errors from one
disk partition on a DEC Unix workstation. Usually vdump will complain about
a particular file. I can replace the file with a copy from a similar
workstation, and the backups will run fine for a few more weeks. I suspect
my disk may be starting to have problems.
One trick I've found to investigate these errors is to run dump (vdump in
my case) by hand:
vdump -0f - /offending_file_system | cat > /dev/null
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