We are having a problem with our backups in that it is dying part way
through as listed at the bottom of this email. We have tried to resolve the
problem by doing the following:
1) reboot system
2) power off tape drive, reboot, then shutdown system, power on tape drive
and boot up again
3) change out tape drive - same problem
4) replace tapes, run cleaning tape
The problem seemed to have started after the root_domain ran out of disk
space due to a temporary file growing rampantly.
Could it be the scsi controller? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ginette Miller
North Island College
ginette.miller_at_nic.bc.ca
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Backing up / to /dev/ntape/tape5_d1 at Fri Mar 15 02:40:41 PST 2002
path : /
dev/fset : root_domain#root
type : advfs
advfs id : 0x3bd63d15.0000926d.1
vdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch
vdump: Dumping directories
vdump: Dumping 97358449 bytes, 132 directories, 2102 files
vdump: Dumping regular files
vdump: unable to write to device </dev/ntape/tape5_d1>; [5] I/O error
vdump: unable to prompt input for retry on device; [25] Not a typewriter
/ backup complete
Backing up /work to /dev/ntape/tape5_d1 at Fri Mar 15 02:41:49 PST 2002
vdump: can't open dev </dev/ntape/tape5_d1>; [5] I/O error
/work backup complete
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Received on Fri Mar 15 2002 - 18:32:34 NZDT