On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0500, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > I have some backup scripts that manipulate a tape library and tape > drive to perform my nightly backups. Ever since the switch from > gtar to bsdtar in the base system, gtar fails to write any data > to my tape and usually puts my SCSI bus in an unusable state. I > must then issue a camcontrol reset command to free up the tape > drive for use.
Just for grins, I tried playing with dump. Dump fails as well: # dump -0 -a -b 64 -C 32 -f /dev/nsa0 -n -u -L / DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Feb 2 14:27:05 2005 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/amrd0s1a (/) to /dev/nsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: Cache 32 MB, blocksize = 65536 DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 176863 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: write error 64 blocks into volume 1 Broadcast Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/dev/ttyp0) at 14:27 EST... Message from the dump program to all operators DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: write error 64 blocks into volume 1 DUMP WRITE ERROR! DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") I just don't know what to do. I'm half tempted to use Windows for the fileserver at this point. I *need* working backups! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"