$ dmesg|grep nst0 seems to have an empty output.
Although as I stated in the previous email, this output seems to show that the tapes were working: |------------------------------------------------------------ | Backup start: Wed Feb 17 22:54:16 2010 | Backup end: Thu Feb 18 00:01:45 2010 |------------------------------------------------------------ At block 24937320. |------------------------------------------------------------ | Rewinding... | Compressing log (all.0.201002172000.gz) | Linking all.latest.gz -> all.0.201002172000.gz |------------------------------------------------------------ The tape seems to be correctly inserted and the ubuntu seems to detecting the drive: $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: DAT DAT72-052 Rev: A16E Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 How can I find out what BlockSize shall I use? ______________________________ André Tenreiro IT Manager ACTIVE SPACE TECHNOLOGIES Tel: +351 239 700 333 Fax: +351 239 700 301 www.activespacetech.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "TeckniX" <loki...@gmail.com> To: "André Tenreiro" <andre.tenre...@activespacetech.com> Cc: flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, 2 March, 2010 20:04:09 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [flexbackup-help] URGENT: Cannot list files can you confirm from your dmesg that it is connected? even if 2 days ago you were able to connect, doesn't mean it's still connecting now. Look in the dmesg for the nst0 outlook 2010/3/2 André Tenreiro < andre.tenre...@activespacetech.com > I'm having problems reading from the TAPE using the -list command: atenre...@intranet:~$ sudo flexbackup -list flexbackup version 1.2.1 ( http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net ) /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK |------------------------------------------------------------ | Checking 'buffer' on this machine... Ok | Checking /bin/sh on this machine... unknown |------------------------------------------------------------ | Logging output to "flexbackup.list.201003021458.log" | Reading from CURRENT TAPE POSITION |------------------------------------------------------------ At block 0. |------------------------------------------------------------ | buffer -m 10m -p 75 -t -u 100 -i "/dev/nst0" | afio -t -z -D \ | /usr/bin/flexbackup -P gzip -Q -d -Q -q -Z -v - |------------------------------------------------------------ buffer (reader): failed to read input: Input/output error afio: "-": No input |------------------------------------------------------------ At block 0. |------------------------------------------------------------ atenre...@intranet:~$ I did not create the tape, but I'm assuming that was successfully created with FlexBackup. I can see in the dmesg: [9713777.783758] st0: Incorrect block size. I'm using Ubuntu Server 8.04 x64. What can I do? How can I find out the correct Block Size? Regards, ______________________________ André Tenreiro IT Manager ACTIVE SPACE TECHNOLOGIES Tel: +351 239 700 333 Fax: +351 239 700 301 www.activespacetech.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list flexbackup-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
