From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 15:29:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8630B37B404 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from joloxbox.joshualokken.com (12-225-249-250.client.attbi.com [12.225.249.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05A243FB1 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:29:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshualokken@attbi.com) Received: from joloxbox.joshualokken.com (localhost.joshualokken.com [127.0.0.1])h3DMTqH8000209; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:29:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshualokken@attbi.com) Received: (from jolok@localhost) by joloxbox.joshualokken.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h3DMTlgu000208; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:29:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: joloxbox.joshualokken.com: jolok set sender to joshualokken@attbi.com using -f Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:29:47 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken To: james_mapson@museum.rain.com Message-ID: <20030413222947.GA185@joloxbox.joshualokken.com> References: <20030413204335.GA9480@joloxbox.joshualokken.com> <20030413142658.A70425@ns.museum.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030413142658.A70425@ns.museum.rain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: little to none X-OS: FreeBSD joloxbox.joshualokken.com 4.8-STABLE i386 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Colorado 5gb and mt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:29:18 -0000 * James Long (list@museum.rain.com) wrote: ==> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:43:35PM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: ==> > ==> > The backup continues, and finishes, reporting success, and flexbackup ==> > properly stores the index of the backup, however, when I examine the ==> > tape with : ==> > ==> > #mt fsf 1 (for example) ==> > ==> > the tape activity is there, and I receive no errors. The tape ==> > has no index and apparently backs up each dir to the beginning ==> > chunk of tape, and overwrites it with the next dir! That is not ==> > what I want. ==> ==> I've never used flexbackup, so I can't help with the blocksize error, ==> but the symptom above suggest that you may want to test with the device ==> set to /dev/nast0. I also use SCSI tape instead of ATAPI, but I presume ==> the /dev/nast0 device would be the same as /dev/ast0 except that /dev/ast0 ==> will rewind the tape when the device is closed. If, perchance, flexbackup ==> is closing the device when it finishes backing up one directory heirarchy, ==> the /dev/ast0 device will do a rewind upon receiving that close command, It was, indeed. ==> and lo and behold, your second backup job will overwrite the first, and ==> the third will overwrite the second, etc. This is conjecture, but it ==> seems to match your symptoms on this issue. ==> ==> Since you are still playing at this point, try playing some more using ==> /dev/nast0 I did, and the backup, and subsequent verification went well! Thanks again, Jim. I do still receive the blocksize error, and the device does seem to cause a few problems, but I am able to backup properly for now ;) -- Joshua