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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Bear
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:22 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gtar failing, please help!
for me, my experience down scsi tape units and freebsd has been a road
On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:22, David Bear wrote:
snip
btw, I wonder how many tape unit users get burned by the fact that
they don't test their tapes -- and when they need the tape find that
it was bad..
I back up to CDs, and have it md5 the file going onto the CD then md5 it off
again.
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:22:21PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
since you are using a tape, have you checked with
dmesg (for kernel message about the tape)
mt errstat (cryptic output, but maybe someone here could help)
I get this in my dmesg output:
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): AutoSense Failed
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
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
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:29:26PM -0500, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
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
