On Monday, February 27, 2017 11:49:54 AM CET Robert Kudyba wrote: > This happens on 1 Fedora 25 workstation backing up a tar to a Drobo NAS. > ERROR OUTPUT: > /bin/tar: /ourserver/etc-new.tgz: Cannot close: > Input/output error > /bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
The 'close()' syscall returned non-zero value and errno was set to EIO That sounds like some underlying issue with your hardware. > in dmesg I do see occasional errors like this: > > [Mon Feb 27 01:13:19 2017] CIFS VFS: Error -11 sending data on socket to > server > [Mon Feb 27 01:46:41 2017] CIFS VFS: Server ourdrobo has not responded in 120 > seconds. Reconnecting... This might be related (I'm not familiar with your hardware/setup) if CIFS is used to support your hardware. It is unlikely tar would be able to recover from such issues if no underlying layer does so. I would be cautious to ignore such issue as your backup might be incomplete. So failing the whole backup process makes sense to me. Pavel
