Hi Frank,
You might be aware of this, but if any files are growing or
changing their status in any way either during or between backups
or verifications, BRU or any other backup utility will show errors.
BRU is fairly smart about this in that it returns an error 1 for
warnings and an error 2 for hard errors, afio returns error 1 for
everything which is problematic.
The upshot of all this is that backups should be done when the
system is getting the least amount of use like the early morning
hours.
Carl
On 02-Feb-99 Frank Canali wrote:
> I'm trying to use an iomega ditto easy 3200 parallel port tape drive
> with ftape 4.03-pre2 under redhat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36).
>
> Basic communication with the tape drive seems to work in that it does
> something when I use ftmt commands, etc. The problem is that if I
> attempt to use bru (BRU2000-15.0P-2) to do a backup everything also
> seems to work but if I attempt to verify internal consistency or
> compare files I will always get an error somewhere (apparently
> randomly) withing the backup. The errors are frequently interpreted
> as end of volume.
>
> I have also tried to use tar but can't seem to even get the backup to
> finish without an error.
>
> Anyone out there have any ideas?
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E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02-Feb-99
Time: 17:49:59
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