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I have been using Flexbackup for a few weeks. I made a full backup of
my computer and have followed that with daily differential backups
alternating two tapes on alternate days.

These backups are run as Cron jobs and yesterday I found the following
in  the log:

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking 'buffer' on this machine... Ok
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... bash2
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 1 backup of set fulldataman1 using afio
| ERROR: Tape doesn't have an index! (use -newtape?)
| Making sure tape is at end of data...
| Backup set "fulldataman1" (/ /home /usr /usr/local /var /mnt/dos)
|------------------------------------------------------------
At block 0.

<Stuff cut here>

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Mon Feb 02 05:16:49 2004
| Backup end:   Mon Feb 02 05:16:50 2004
|------------------------------------------------------------
At block 33201.
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Rewinding...
| Removing old level 1 log of fulldataman1 (dated 200401310500)
| Compressing log (fulldataman1.1.200402020500.gz)
| Linking fulldataman1.latest.gz -> fulldataman1.1.200402020500.gz
|------------------------------------------------------------
Key  not found in index

The tape did have an index on all previous runs but now appears to
contain 6 empty files.

Any ideas as to why this might happen? Could it be caused by a full
tape?


Barry Samuels
http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk
The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain