Hi Frank,
See below...
On 09-Feb-99 Frank Canali wrote:
> I'm sending this in case it helps anyone or anyone has any
> suggestions.
>
> I am running RedHat Linux 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36. I am using an
> iomega ditto easy 3200 off the parallel port.
>
> I began with ftape 4.02 and attempted to use bru 2000, personal
> edition, for backup. I kept getting errors on both backup and
> verification. They apparently occured randomly on the tape and were
> usually seen as end of volume.
>
> I upgraded to ftape 4.03-pre1 and things improved. I got no errors
> during the backup but still got errors at random places on the tape
> during verify that were usually seen as end of volume on the tape. I
> can't remember everything I did but I fooled around with bru and
> ftape parameters until I was consistently getting errors (end of
> volume) within about 20 blocks of the end of what the backup said it
> had written to tape.
>
> No problem! I backed up a dummy file at the end of a backup set
> which was more than 20 blocks long so that data on the tape until
> that point was restorable.
>
> I just updated to ftape-4.x-1999_02_07. Now I still get no errors on
> backup, which takes about an hour and a half. (Still no problem.)
> However, when I attempt to do "bru -i" to check internal consistency
> of the backup it ran for 12 hours and was about 1/2 way through
> before I stopped it. There were no errors until the point at which
> it stopped.
>
>>From the sound of the tape it was doing a lot of shoeshining. If I
>>attempt a verify or restore it sounds the same. Looks like it will
>>take about a day to restore the last file on the tape.
>
> Any ideas?
Yes, turn on buffering either in the /etc/brutab file or on the command
line. I don't remember what the switches are but they are there. Also
bru does an auto CRC verify without using the -i switch so this switch
is really redundant.
Carl
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E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09-Feb-99
Time: 17:46:33
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