To cut a long story short the problem turned out to be a mounted samba directory. The Windows servers has been re-organised so that the mounted location had moved. This resulted in an input/ouput error if any GNU command (in this case "find") tried to access it, even though the /mnt directory was excluded.
Re-pointing the samba share to its new location fixed the problem.
Thanks, SimonB
Edwin Huffstutler wrote:
[ Simon J. Blandford wrote: ]
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
bytes to write=32768, bytes written=-1, total written 5841504K
afio: "-" [offset 5728m+576k+0]: Fatal error:
afio: "-": Broken pipe
How big are your tapes? "buffer" died while trying to write a chunk of data, at about 5.7GB worth.
You might also check syslog messages to see if the tape driver had anything to say. (Something like that is more likely, because for a tape full you get an ENOSPACE message usually not an EIO)
If the driver seems ok and the tape wasn't full, maybe try with "buffer" set to off to check that that isn't the problem. (it'll be slower, but it'll be the same data on the tape)
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