># dd if=/dev/ru02 of=/dev/null bs=1024k
>7104+0 records in.
>7104+0 records out.
That may or may not mean anything. However, it does probably mean the
drive is not on its death bed.
Did errpt have anything to say about it?
>Guess it still wouldn't hurt to take the box down and fsck the drive. Any
>other suggestions??
In addition to (and before you do the fsck) I'd try backup itself:
/usr/sbin/backup -0f - /dev/ru02 > /dev/null
I'd also try this again after fsck.
Make sure you don't use -f (fast check) on fsck.
The other possibility here is that the file system activity is confusing
backup. You didn't say if the problem was repeatable within Amanda (i.e.
the same block showing an error every run). If it's the same each time,
that's got to be a hardware or fsck type error. If not, it could just
be other activity confusing backup.
>BTW, I also looked at the man page and some other documentation for
>backup on AIX to see if I could determine what the returned 4 was, and it
>didn't have anything helpful.
That's IBM documentation for you :-). There probably isn't any real
significance to the number 4 (at least as far as we care) other than
it's not zero (success).
>-Aaron
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
