On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 at 10:13am, Jesse Griffis wrote > I am getting an odd end-of-tape error on every tape, every time I try > to write a very large file. Below is the Amanda report for the last > attempt I tried. I'm chopping out some of the extraneous detail (the
> > These dumps were to tape DailySet1-17. > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]]. Note that here amanda is just telling you what the OS told it. For more detail on exactly what sort of I/O error occurred, look in /var/log/messages. > Tape Time (hrs:min) 0:12 0:12 0:00 > Tape Size (meg) 4590.4 4590.4 0.0 > Tape Used (%) 7.7 7.7 0.0 > Filesystems Taped 3 3 0 > Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s) 6776.7 6776.7 -- In here there should be a NOTES section. That will tell you *exactly* how much data got to tape before the I/O error. As Jon mentioned, make sure that you're not using hardware compressions, as you are using software compression. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
