Re: failed backup

[John R. Jackson]

>I have been using amanda for a while now.  Suddenly a few days ago, we
>started having a volume fail on one of our AIX boxes.  ...
>| backup: bread from /dev/ru02 [block 543980]: count=22528, got=-1
>?       backup: 38.12% done, finished in 210:59

If this is consistent, I suspect the disk is failing.  Does errpt have
anything interesting to say?  What happens if you dd the disk to /dev/null
(dd if=/dev/ru02 of=/dev/null bs=1024k)?

>-Aaron

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]