[flexbackup-help] Red Hat 7.3 and Tandberg SLR7

[Moacyr L. da S. <mo...@gm...>]

Hi there

log fragment -- check /dev/nst0: Input/output error


|------------------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of set etc using afio
| Retensioning tape...
| Rewinding & erasing tape...
| Creating index key 200410012139
| Backup set "etc" (/etc)
| Tape #0
|------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/nst0: Input/output error
|------------------------------------------------------------
| File number 1, tape index 200410012139
| Backup of: /etc
| Date of this level 0 backup: Fri Oct 01 21:39:39 2004
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------------------
| printf "Volume Label:\nlevel 0 /etc Fri Oct 01 21:39:39 2004
|   afio+hardware from servidor\n\n" > /tmp/label.16951
| cd "/etc" && (printf "//--/tmp/label.16951
|   flexbackup.volume_header_info\n" && find . -depth -xdev ! -type s !
|   -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex ".*~"$ -print ) | afio -o -z -1 m -v
|   -b 10k - | buffer -m 2m -p 75 -s 10k -t -u 100 -B -o "/dev/nst0"
| rm -f /tmp/label.16951
|------------------------------------------------------------
CONTROL_FILE/flexbackup.volume_header_info -- okay
sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases -- okay
...
...
afio: 3m+828k+0 bytes written in 4 seconds. The operation was successful.
Kilobytes Out 3900
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Fri Oct 01 21:39:39 2004
| Backup end:   Fri Oct 01 21:39:48 2004
|------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/nst0: Input/output error
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Rewinding...
| Removing old level 0 log of etc (dated 200410012118)
|------------------------------------------------------------

I receive /dev/nst0: Input/output error all the time, but i can
restore from the tape, already used the cleaning tape.

Any tip?!

Best Regards,
Moacyr Leite da Silva


Here is the enviroment

# uname -a
Linux servidor 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002 i686 unknown

# rpm -q afio flexbackup buffer
afio-2.4.7-134
flexbackup-1.2.1-1
buffer-1.19-5

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST336607LW       Rev: 0005
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
  Vendor: TANDBERG Model: SLR7             Rev: 0550
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM-ESXS Model: DTN036C1UCDY10F  Rev: S23J
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03

# egrep -v '(^#|^$)' /etc/flexbackup.conf
$type = 'afio';
$set{'etc'} = "/etc";
$set{'home'} = "/home";
$set{'full'} = "/etc /home /disk2";
$prune{'/'} = "tmp proc mnt dev lib usr var";
$compress = 'hardware'; # one of false/gzip/bzip2/lzop/zip/compress/hardware
$compr_level = '4'; # compression level (1-9) (for gzip/bzip2/lzop/zip)
$buffer = 'buffer';         # one of false/buffer/mbuffer
$buffer_megs = '2';        # buffer memory size (in megabytes)
$buffer_fill_pct = '75';    # start writing when buffer this percent full
$buffer_pause_usec = '100'; # pause after write (tape devices only)
$device = '/dev/nst0';
$blksize = '10';
$mt_blksize = "0";
$pad_blocks = 'true';
$remoteshell = 'ssh'; # command for remote shell (rsh/ssh/ssh2)
$remoteuser = '';     # if non-null, secondary username for remote shells
$label = 'true';      # somehow store identifying label in archive?
$verbose = 'true';    # echo each file?
$sparse = 'true';     # handle sparse files?
$indexes = 'true';    # false to turn off all table-of-contents support
$staticfiles = 'false';
$atime_preserve = 'false';
$traverse_fs = 'false';
$exclude_expr[0] = '.*/[Cc]ache/.*';
$exclude_expr[1] = '.*~$';
$erase_tape_set_level_zero = 'true';
$erase_rewind_only = 'true';
$logdir = '/var/log/flexbackup';   # directory for log files
$comp_log = 'gzip';                # compress log?
false/gzip/bzip2/lzop/compress/zip
$staticlogs = 'false';             # static log filenames w/ no date stamp
$prefix = '';                      # log files will start with this prefix
$tmpdir = '/tmp';                  # used for temporary refdate files, etc
$stampdir = '/var/lib/flexbackup'; # directory for backup timestamps
$index = '/var/lib/flexbackup/index'; # DB filename for tape indexes
$keyfile = '00-index-key';         # filename for keyfile if archiving to dir
$sprefix = '';                     # stamp files will start with this prefix
$afio_nocompress_types = 'mp3 MP3 Z z gz GIF gif zip ZIP lha JPEG jpeg
jpg JPG taz tgz deb rpm bz2 lzo';
$afio_echo_block = 'false';
$afio_compress_threshold = '3';
$afio_compress_cache_size = '2';
$tar_echo_record_num = 'false';
$cpio_format = 'newc';
$dump_length = '0';
$dump_use_dumpdates = 'false';
$star_fifo = 'true';
$star_acl = 'true';
$star_format = 'exustar';
$star_echo_block_num = 'false';
$pax_format = 'ustar';
$zip_nocompress_types = 'mp3 MP3 Z z gz gif zip ZIP lha jpeg jpg JPG
taz tgz deb rpm bz2 lzo';
$pkgdelta_archive_list = 'rootonly';
$pkgdelta_archive_unowned = 'true';
$pkgdelta_archive_changed = 'true';
1;