Dear Fellow Admins -
On 8 April, Penny Champin posted the following summary to her question.
Needless to say, this makes it hard to do my backups since the 8mm is the
only tape drive I have. Has anyone else run into this problem and fixed
it?
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>From alpha-osf-managers-owner-klarsen=enterprise.afit.af.mil_at_sws1.ctd.ornl.gov Wed Apr 8 17:22:50 1998
Thanks to Bob G.
After deleting the rmt devices and adding them back in, the problem
was fixed. I was using the wrong special files.
Original question.
>My system, DEC 3000/400, was upgraded from osf 1.3 to 4.0d and I've
>applied the 4.0d patch and rebuilt the kernel. When I list the patches,
>Patch 0008.01 dump command correction is listed, but I'm still getting the
>error:
>The available blocks(6956), is less than the estimated blocks(1275369)
>message when I try to do a dump. I'm using the following command.
>
>/usr/sbin/dump 0uf /dev/nrmt5h /usr1
>
>Is there something else I need to do?
>
>Penny
>p.a.champine_at_larc.nasa.gov
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I am receiving the same message about a tape drive on another machine.
Needless to say, deleting and recreating the tape device will not help
me. I am trying to use rdump to backup my 4.0 secure NIS server to an
8mm exabyte tape drive on a SunOS Sparc 2 running 4.1.3. I receive the
following error.
rdump: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue May 12 09:10:47 1998 EDT
rdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch
rdump: Dumping /dev/rrz2g (/patran_tmp) to /dev/nrst8 on host jefferson.afit.af.mil
rdump: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
rdump: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
rdump: Remote system is not known to be compatible for magtape functions, output being treated as regular file
rdump: Estimate: 2077204 tape blocks on disk
The available blocks(112148),is less than the estimated blocks(2077204)
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Dump is being aborted
rdump: SIGTERM received
rdump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted
Needless to say, this makes it hard to do my backups since the 8mm is the
only tape drive I have. Has anyone else run into this problem and fixed
it?
I also never had the message
rdump: Remote system is not known to be compatible for magtape functions, output being treated as regular file
until I upgraded to 4.0x.
I have not had a chance to install any patches on this machine or the other
machines in my 4.0 secure NIS domain. Will that help? I have gone 3 months
not being able to backup these machines. Buying a tape drive specifically
for this one domain is not an option, we must buy what will service all
the domains that I administer.
Thank you.
Kris Larsen
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Kristin L. Larsen aka) "Hey you!"
System Administrator, AFIT/ENY
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
ICES contractor
klarsen_at_afit.af.mil AFIT e-mail
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Received on Tue May 12 1998 - 15:44:27 NZST