Re: [Dump-users] dump problems...

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:38:53PM -0500, Amith Varghese wrote:

> "/dev/nst0". and ask me if i want to retry.  However, I've used another
> backup system on this machine (Amanda) and that has worked fine with
> /dev/nst0.

Amanda uses either dump or tar to do the actual tape backup.

> Does anyone have any idea why I might be getting the "cannot open output
> error"?

Maybe you need to write at a precise blocksize, try the -B <size> 
parameter of dump.

Or run a strace -f on dump itself and see what exactly happens
on open().

Stelian.
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