ckandreou wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I am not an expert on Backups. I did spend a lot of
> time reading and researching about the tape backups on Linux. Here is the
> full error message:
>[...]
> bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows.
> bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl f
ckandreou wrote:
>
> Craig Barratt wrote:
>> ckandreou writes:
>>
>>
>>> Executing: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
>>> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split ccdev10 348
>>> /usr/bin/bzip2 .bz2 000 /dev/sa0 *
>>> Xfer PIDs are now 81631
>>> Writing tar arch
Tino Schwarze wrote:
>
>> Executing: /bin/csh -cf -cf /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -t -h
>> ccdev10 -n 369 -s \* . | /usr/bin/bzip2 >> /dev/sa0
>> Error: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress or split failed
>> Archive failed: Error: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_t
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:36:33AM -0400, ckandreou wrote:
> The log from the host that I am trying to backup to tape is as follow:
> 2009-06-05 01:00:08 full backup started for directory / (baseline backup #368)
> 2009-06-05 11:23:12 full backup 369 complete, 216652 files, 43976121396
> bytes, 0
> Thanks for the info. I continue to get the same message. BackUpPC web
> interface for "tape_archive" indicates that the backup failed, with
> the error message the same as above,
You need to look closer. The "type 8" messages are noise (and should
probably be suppressed if possible). Please pos
ckandreou writes:
> Executing: /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split ccdev10 348
> /usr/bin/bzip2 .bz2 000 /dev/sa0 *
> Xfer PIDs are now 81631
> Writing tar archive for host ccdev10, backup #348 to /dev/sa0
> Got unknown t
ckandreou wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am using 36/72 Backup tapes. I am getting the following error message when
> I am trying to backup/transfer from the BackupPC server to tape drive. I
> would appreciated if someone can provide me with direction on how should I
> proceed in handling the error.
