Topic: flexbackup

[Mark]

Anyone know what some of these errors mean, and what causes them?
I am running e-smith 4.1rc3 with a SCSI tape device (Travan Drive).




flexbackup version 0.9.8
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of all using dump
| Retensioning tape...
| Rewinding & erasing tape...
| Creating index key 200102270203.00
| Tape #0
| Filesystems = / /boot /halflife
|------------------------------------------------
At block 1.
|------------------------------------------------
| File number 1, index key 200102270203.00
| Backup of: /
| Date of this level 0 backup: Tue Feb 27 02:03:01 2001
| 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: Tue Feb 27 02:03:01 2001
  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 537425 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Tue Feb 27 02:03:06 2001
  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         10K
  DUMP: Broken pipe
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
|------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Tue Feb 27 02:03:01 2001
| Backup end:   Tue Feb 27 02:03:11 2001
|------------------------------------------------
At block 1.
|------------------------------------------------
| File number 2, index key 200102270203.00
| Backup of: /boot
| Date of this level 0 backup: Tue Feb 27 02:03:21 2001
| 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: Tue Feb 27 02:03:21 2001
  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 3066 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Tue Feb 27 02:03:21 2001
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Tue Feb 27 02:03:23 2001
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:02
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 1529 KB/s
  DUMP: 3058 tape blocks (2.99MB)
  DUMP: finished in 2 seconds, throughput 1529 KBytes/sec
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Feb 27 02:03:21 2001
  DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Tue Feb 27 02:03:23 2001
  DUMP: Average transfer rate: 1529 KB/s
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written          0K
|------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Tue Feb 27 02:03:21 2001
| Backup end:   Tue Feb 27 02:03:23 2001
|------------------------------------------------
At block 1.
|------------------------------------------------
| File number 3, index key 200102270203.00
| Backup of: /halflife
| Date of this level 0 backup: Tue Feb 27 02:03:33 2001
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------
| (dump -0 -b 10 -a -f - /halflife | gzip -4) | buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100 -t \
|  -p 75 -B -o /dev/nst0
|------------------------------------------------
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Feb 27 02:03:33 2001
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda1 (/halflife) to standard output
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 301810 tape blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started at: Tue Feb 27 02:03:34 2001
  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          0K
  DUMP: Broken pipe
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
|------------------------------------------------
| Backup start: Tue Feb 27 02:03:33 2001
| Backup end:   Tue Feb 27 02:03:36 2001
|------------------------------------------------
At block 1.
|------------------------------------------------
| Rewinding...
| Compressing log (all.0.20010227.gz)
| Linking all.latest.gz -> all.0.20010227.gz
|------------------------------------------------

File  Contents    (tape index 200102270203.00)
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0  
1   level 0 / Tue Feb 27 02:03:01 2001 dump+gzip from mail
2   level 0 /boot Tue Feb 27 02:03:21 2001 dump+gzip from mail
3   level 0 /halflife Tue Feb 27 02:03:33 2001 dump+gzip from mail

[Charlie Brady]

Mark wrote:
>
> Anyone know what some of these errors mean, and what causes
> them?
> I am running e-smith 4.1rc3 with a SCSI tape device (Travan
> Drive).

You should upgrade to 4.1.1, then apply the e-smith-backup RPM from the updates directory.

Charlie

[Gerald]

I would reccomend upgrading to the released version and then installing the latest flexbackup rpm. Then do a backup again an see if the errors go away.