My apologies since this concerns a Red Hat v6.2 system and not a Mandrake one but I may be some kind sole could help with this one. I'm backing up a RH system using an old Exabyte 2500SX 8mm DAT (SCSI) which requires using several tapes. When I back up the system, it works fine - when it hits the end of the tape it asks for a another tape - the problem I have is when I go back to verify that at the end of the first tape I get: "cpio: read error: Input/output error" and it stops there. I tried using different tapes and cleaning the tape heads. This is the command line I use to backup the fs find ... | cpio -o -C 65536 - H newc -O /dev/st0 and here is my verify: cpio -ivt -C 65536 -H newc -I /dev/st0 My next step is to look for a different controller to connect it to - it is currently connected to a Adaptec 1542CF via the external interface. Anyone run into or heard of similar problems? I know that Red Hat (and hence Mandrake) cpio for RH v6.1 had an issue with the '-v' flag where the standard out would get included in the archive and hence corrupt it - but I've tried it both ways.
