Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:15:03 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Joakim Ryden <jryden@forumone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ecrix Message-ID: <3B570787.4E019CF7@i-clue.de> References: <C15E3D46408199449E5118C733ED7FCD0668D7@pluto.forumone.com>
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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
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