Hi Charlie, Strange then isn't it. I'm out of the office now but what I noticed was this with a little further digging. Prior to implementing e-smith-backup-1.2.0-10.noarch.rpm all backups started at block 41. After installing the update backups started at block 65, I performed an e-smith-mananger restore and that work fine, except for the noted rewind error. However the next backup tests, again starting at block 65 did not allow me to perform any flexbackup command-line list or restore jobs. I rebooted the server and did some more backups. They now all start at block 85 and everything works fine? Darrell -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Brady To: Darrell May Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; e-smith-devinfo (E-mail) Sent: 2/23/01 11:25 AM Subject: Re: flexbackup errors On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Darrell May wrote: > After installing e-smith-backup-1.2.0-10.noarch.rpm I > can not perform flexbackup command-line functions. > What has changed? See the changelog below.. > |------------------------------------------------ > | Trying "mt defblksize" instead of "mt setblk" > | Reading from current tape position > |------------------------------------------------ > At block 65. > |------------------------------------------------ > | buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -i /dev/nst0 | gzip -dq | restore > -t \ > | -v -b 10 -f - > |------------------------------------------------ > Kilobytes Out 0 > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > restore: Tape is not a dump tape > Verify tape and initialize maps > End-of-tape encountered According to this, end of tape was encountered. > > Charlie Brady wrote: > > > You can see that for yourself: > > > > > > rpm -qv --changelog e-smith-backup-1.2.0-10.noarch.rpm I've actually quoted below from: rpm -qv --changelog e-smith-backup-1.2.0-11.noarch.rpm and you haven't yet seen e-smith-backup-1.2.0-11.noarch.rpm, it needs to be tested internally. > > > =============================================== > > > > > > * Wed Feb 21 2001 Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > - [1.2.0-11] > > > - Add tape rewind action to tape restore > > > > > > * Wed Feb 21 2001 Peter Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > - [1.2.0-10] > > > - Now rewinds tape before zeroing tape. > > > - Writes 32k of zeroes instead of 10k. Neither of these should have any affect at all on doing a tape restore, which is what you seem to have been attempting. Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.e-smith.com (corporate) Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada
