From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 9:13: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A150537B405 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA30760; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:20:43 +0200 Message-ID: <3B570787.4E019CF7@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:15:03 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joakim Ryden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ecrix References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joakim Ryden schrieb: > > Hi - > I have a FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE machine with an Ecrix VXA 33/66G tape drive > in it. A full backup of the machine is ~19G and still I keep getting > "end of tape" messages when backing up. The tape _is_ rewound before > every backup. Command used to back up: > > dump 0ufa /dev/nrsa0 /dev/mlxd0s1a > > I just wanted to check if anyone else had experienced any weirdness like > this? Check the size of the dump by piping dunps output to a regular file. If the resulting file is bigger than _uncompressed_ tape size, you know your answer. If there remains tape, your drive is dirty. Clean its head. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message