Hi John, if you wish, I'll be happy to work with you to try to troubleshoot your flexbackup issues. If you could provide more detailed information on the errors you get and the work you have done in troubleshooting these issues so far I'll see if I have anything further to add. Alternately I have worked with Taper extensively and could assist you in switching to a complete Taper solution if this becomes the only answer for you. As Charlie noted taper does not support a command-line restore so from e-smith's perspective this doesn't fit their design goal. Regards, Darrell > -----Original Message----- > From: John Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 8:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] flexbackup I/O errors - more info > > > 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 > > > -- > This list is archived > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
