From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 22:49: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9DA14CFB for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 22:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kas@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from localhost (kas@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02362 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:43:58 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from kas@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:43:58 +0600 (NS) From: Alexander Kolchinsky To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: HP Travan 4000s restore problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My box runs under FreeBSD 3.4 : FreeBSD myserver.ru 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Sun Dec 26 02:20:04 NS 1999 root@myserver.ru:/usr/src/sys/compile/myserver i386 I use HP Travan 4000s for backup. For this purpose I use the shell script: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/chflags -R nodump /usr/obj /usr/src /usr/swap0 /tmp /usr/local/samba/gang /usr/local/etc/squid/cache /usr/lost+found /usr/bin/mt erase /usr/bin/mt rewind /sbin/dump -a -0 -h 0 -u -f /dev/nrsa0 / /sbin/dump -a -0 -h 0 -u -f /dev/nrsa0 /var /sbin/dump -a -0 -h 0 -u -f /dev/nrsa0 /usr This script works fine. At least, it seems like the tape drive writing tape. The last backup was done at 21 december 1999. When I had tried to restore yesterday I received error message : bash$ mt rewind bash$ restore -if /dev/nrsa0 tape read error: Input/output error bash$ For test purpose I made another backup on the same tape today. Restore command starts to work fine with this tape now. But other tapes with earlier backups still not working. I try to read these 4 tapes under other Linux box using other HP Travan 4000s but 3 tapes can't be read with the same error. Tape #4 with the today's backup has been read fine. Why I can't read 3 tapes with backups that were written 21 December 1999 and earlier? Alexander Kolchinsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message