Re: [flexbackup-help] Broken pipe now. Worked before.

[Simon B. <ho...@si...>]

Hi Edwin,

To cut a long story short the problem turned out to be a mounted samba 
directory. The Windows servers has been re-organised so that the mounted 
location had moved. This resulted in an input/ouput error if any GNU 
command (in this case "find") tried to access it, even though the /mnt 
directory was excluded.

Re-pointing the samba share to its new location fixed the problem.

Thanks,
SimonB

Edwin Huffstutler wrote:

>[ Simon J. Blandford wrote: ]
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>>buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
>>bytes to write=32768, bytes written=-1, total written    5841504K
>>afio: "-" [offset 5728m+576k+0]: Fatal error:
>>afio: "-": Broken pipe
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>How big are your tapes?  "buffer" died while trying to write a chunk of
>data, at about 5.7GB worth.
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>You might also check syslog messages to see if the tape driver had anything
>to say.  (Something like that is more likely, because for a tape full you
>get an ENOSPACE message usually not an EIO)
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>If the driver seems ok and the tape wasn't full, maybe try with "buffer"
>set to off to check that that isn't the problem.  (it'll be slower, but
>it'll be the same data on the tape)
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