I just installed a Seagate Travan 40 tape back up and configured e-smith to perform a daily back up. I get the following message. Can anyone recommend a solution?
flexbackup version 0.9.8
> /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK
>
> |------------------------------------------------
> | Trying "mt defblksize" instead of "mt setblk"
> | Doing level 0 backup of all using dump
> | Retensioning tape...
> | Rewinding & erasing tape...
> | Creating index key 200310081601.34
> | Tape #0
> | Filesystems = / /boot
> |------------------------------------------------
> At block 64.
> |------------------------------------------------
> | File number 1, index key 200310081601.34
> | Backup of: /
> | Date of this level 0 backup: Wed Oct 08 16:01:34 2003
> | 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: Wed Oct 8 16:01:34 2003
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/md1 (/) to standard output
> DUMP: Added inode 7 to exclude list (resize inode)
> DUMP: Label: /
> DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> DUMP: estimated 6962245 tape blocks.
> DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Wed Oct 8 16:05:50 2003
> 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 30K
> DUMP: Broken pipe
> DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
> |------------------------------------------------
> | Backup start: Wed Oct 08 16:01:34 2003
> | Backup end: Wed Oct 08 16:07:51 2003
> |------------------------------------------------
> At block 64.
> |------------------------------------------------
> | File number 2, index key 200310081601.34
> | Backup of: /boot
> | Date of this level 0 backup: Wed Oct 08 16:08:01 2003
> | 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: Wed Oct 8 16:08:01 2003
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/md0 (/boot) to standard output
> DUMP: Added inode 7 to exclude list (resize inode)
> DUMP: Label: /boot1
> DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> DUMP: estimated 2970 tape blocks.
> DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Wed Oct 8 16:08:02 2003
> DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
> DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
> DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Wed Oct 8 16:08:05 2003
> DUMP: Volume 1 2960 tape blocks (2.89MB)
> DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:03
> DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 986 kB/s
> DUMP: 2960 tape blocks (2.89MB)
> DUMP: finished in 3 seconds, throughput 986 kBytes/sec
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Oct 8 16:08:01 2003
> DUMP: Date this dump completed: Wed Oct 8 16:08:05 2003
> DUMP: Average transfer rate: 986 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: Wed Oct 08 16:08:01 2003
> | Backup end: Wed Oct 08 16:08:05 2003
> |------------------------------------------------
> At block 64.
> |------------------------------------------------
> | Rewinding...
> | Compressing log (all.0.20031008.gz)
> | Linking all.latest.gz -> all.0.20031008.gz
> |------------------------------------------------
>
> File Contents (tape index 200310081601.34)
> -----------------------------------------------
> 0
> 1 level 0 / Wed Oct 08 16:01:34 2003 dump+gzip from bcsrv1
> 2 level 0 /boot Wed Oct 08 16:08:01 2003 dump+gzip from bcsrv1
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