[Dump-users] dump spontaneously stopped working

[Jon N. B. <ma...@nv...>]

Hello all.  It's been a LONG time since I've posted to this list because
dump has worked so well for years.  It just quit on me though.

For about 2.5 years now I have been running scripts similiar this:
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dump 0uBf 20000000 /dev/nst0 /
dump 0uBf 20000000 /dev/nst0 /boot
dump 0uBf 20000000 /dev/nst0 /usr
dump 0uBf 20000000 /dev/nst0 /var

mt -f /dev/nst0 rewoffl
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... nearly every day.  I am using dump 0.4b19 on an RH 6.2 system.

Lately I have been getting this (dmesg):

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st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense key
Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Excessive write errors
st0: Error on write filemark.
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Most mt commands give me an I/O error as well.

I've tried cleaning the drive, tried new media, tried old media... I've
even replaced the drive with another (same model/make) and I continue to
get these errors.

Anyone have any ideas?  I am out.  It literally just stopped working the
way that it had for 2 and a half years.  I hadn't changed *anything* for
months when this started happening.

Oh yeah, filesystem is ext2.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.


~Jon.




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 Jon N. Brelie
 Information Systems Manager
 NVE Corp.

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