On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:36:33AM -0400, ckandreou wrote: > The log from the host that I am trying to backup to tape is as follow: > 2009-06-05 01:00:08 full backup started for directory / (baseline backup #368) > 2009-06-05 11:23:12 full backup 369 complete, 216652 files, 43976121396 > bytes, 0 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other) > 2009-06-06 01:00:15 incr backup started back to 2009-06-05 01:00:08 (backup > #369) for directory / > > === Tape archive log displays the following: > Executing: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost > /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split ccdev10 369 > /usr/bin/bzip2 .bz2 0000000 /dev/sa0 * > Xfer PIDs are now 56446 > Writing tar archive for host ccdev10, backup #369 to /dev/sa0 > ..... > ..... unknown files > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. > bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device > Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
Does that error come instantly or does it take a while? I suppose it takes a while because there are so many "type 8" messages? > Executing: /bin/csh -cf -cf /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h > ccdev10 -n 369 -s \* . | /usr/bin/bzip2 >> /dev/sa0 > Error: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress or split failed > Archive failed: Error: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress > or split failed Do you get any messages in your system logs? Maybe there's some problem with the tape? I'd try to archive to an intermediate file first, then see whether I can copy that to tape. BTW: I'm using a custom script to do the archiving since I've got a lot of hosts to archive and want some control over the time that takes. Apart from that, I'm using Bacula to write everything to tape. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
