3 Aug
2005
3 Aug
'05
11:20 p.m.
I'm using a SCSI 72Gb tape drive on a Fedora Core3 system which has recently been updated with the latest kernel (about 2 weeks ago). The tape backup (using tar -cf /dev/st0 ...) had been working fine - for about 5 months, and was used to restore data at that time.
I have just discovered that the backup has been failing recently. When I run tar -cvf /dev/st0 ... only 2048 bytes are backed up before this message is displayed:
tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 2048 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
If I then run tar -tvf /dev/st0, I get all the files upto the point at which the error message was generated.
Any ideas what may have gone wrong? Are there any tools to run diagnostics on the tape unit?
Many thanks
Stuart
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Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS
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Linux Specialist
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