[flexbackup-help] /dev/nst0: Input/output error

[Brian B. <bb...@my...>]

I'm a flexbackup amateur.  Below is the output of my nightly cron job 
from last night.  Am I looking at a defective tape?

BB

Brian Barber
Ottawa, ON   CANADA
brian.barber at mysun.com


flexbackup version 0.9.8 <fle...@ho...>
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of all using dump
| Retensioning tape...
| Rewinding & erasing tape...
| Creating index key 200301250403.31
| Tape #0
| Filesystems = / /boot
|------------------------------------------------
At block 32.
|------------------------------------------------
| File number 1, index key 200301250403.31
| Backup of: /
| Date of this level 0 backup: Sat Jan 25 04:03:36 2003
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------
| (dump -0 -b 10 -a -f - / | gzip -4) | buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100 -t -
p 75 -B \
|  -o /dev/nst0 
|------------------------------------------------
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jan 25 04:03:37 2003
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda6 (/) to standard output
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 1031608 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Sat Jan 25 04:04:52 2003
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written         30K
  DUMP: Broken pipe
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
|------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Sat Jan 25 04:03:36 2003
| Backup end:   Sat Jan 25 04:05:25 2003
|------------------------------------------------
/dev/nst0: Input/output error
|------------------------------------------------
| File number 2, index key 200301250403.31
| Backup of: /boot
| Date of this level 0 backup: Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------
| (dump -0 -b 10 -a -f - /boot | gzip -4) | buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100 -
t -p \
|  75 -B -o /dev/nst0 
|------------------------------------------------
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda1 (/boot) to standard output
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 2060 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Sat Jan 25 04:05:37 2003
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Sat Jan 25 04:05:39 2003
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:02
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 1026 KB/s
  DUMP: 2052 tape blocks (2.00MB)
  DUMP: finished in 2 seconds, throughput 1026 KBytes/sec
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003
  DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Sat Jan 25 04:05:39 2003
  DUMP: Average transfer rate: 1026 KB/s
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written         30K
|------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003
| Backup end:   Sat Jan 25 04:05:39 2003
|------------------------------------------------
/dev/nst0: Input/output error
|------------------------------------------------
| Rewinding...
| Compressing log (all.0.20030125.gz)
| Linking all.latest.gz -> all.0.20030125.gz
|------------------------------------------------

File  Contents    (tape index 200301250403.31)
-----------------------------------------------
0   <tape index key>
1   level 0 / Sat Jan 25 04:03:36 2003 dump+gzip from chico
2   level 0 /boot Sat Jan 25 04:05:36 2003 dump+gzip from chico