Here is some more interesting info. If I use the Taper utilities to either make tape
first or backup anything, then I can use flexbackup EVERYTIME. What is taper doing
differently that flexbackup can't or isn't doing? It seems that I may now be in the
minority of users still getting I/O errors with flexbackup. Anyone know how I can
automate taper to do a mktape? I read the taper docs, and this is the step I am
missing. If I can find out how to do this, then I will add an entry to the crontab
template (I'll have to find it) to run taper with mktape option. If that's not
possible then I'll try plan B - which will be to set an unattended taper job to backup
one file and run it before flexbackup runs. Either way, it's kludgy, but it should
get the job done.
I have downloaded and applied the latest e-smith-backup rpm and tested this on a
different PC with the same tape drive and 2 different SCSI cards.
All assistance is appreciated.
Thanks,
JB
I too am suffering I/O errors when trying to do a backup to tape using flexbackup, but
with taper it seems to work. I don't know much about taper, but I do a taper -T s and
can pick and choose which files to backup and things seem to backup. I have tried the
flexbackup db configuration change as well.
This is on a brand new 4.1.1 install using an AHA-2940W and an exabyte
EXB-85058SQANXR1 tape drive
I would appreciate any ideas on what to try. I would be glad to post any logs if it
will help. Just tell me what logs to post. I'd want to delete what's there now and
post new logs.
Watching the flexbackup screen this is what I can see
/dev/nst0: Input/Output Error (in about 4 different places)
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/Output error
DUMP: broken pipe
DUMP: The entire dump is aborted.
Thanks for everyone's help.
JB
