Topic: Backup failure

[edform]

Attached is a backup report from a little machine that has never missed a beat before. Has anyone any ideas what's going on?

Ed Form

flexbackup version 1.1.7 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking 'buffer' on this machine... Ok
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... bash2
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 0 backup of set all using tar
| All sets = full (1 tapes)
| Rewinding & erasing tape...
| Found index key 200404170100, next file is 2
| Deleting record for 200404170100 file 0
| Deleting record for 200404170100 file 1
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Creating index key 200404180100
| Backup set full (/ /boot)
| Tape #0
|------------------------------------------------------------
At block 1.
|------------------------------------------------------------
| File number 1, tape index 200404180100
| Backup of: /
| Date of this level 0 backup: Sun Apr 18 01:00:43 2004
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
|------------------------------------------------------------
| cd "/" && find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex "news/articles" ! -regex
|   ".*~"$ -print0 | tar --create --null --files-from=-
|   --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions --no-recursion --totals --label
|   "level 0 / Sun Apr 18 01:00:43 2004 tar+gzip from e-smith-server"
|   --sparse --atime-preserve -b 20 --file - | gzip -4 | buffer -m 3m -s
|   10k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -o "/dev/nst0"
|------------------------------------------------------------
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output error
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written     104380K

ERROR from backup, exiting
offending command(s):
cd "/" && find . -depth -xdev ! -type s ! -regex "news/articles" ! -regex ".*~"$ -print0 | tar --create --null --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read --same-permissions --no-recursion --totals --label "level 0 / Sun Apr 18 01:00:43 2004 tar+gzip from e-smith-server" --sparse --atime-preserve -b 20 --file - | gzip -4 | buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -o "/dev/nst0"
Backup terminated: backup failed - status: 256

[wyron]

This is more or less what I get when I've forgotten to run a cleaning tape through my tapedrive for a while, say three or four weeks or so.

[edform]

This is more or less what I get when I've forgotten to run a cleaning tape through my tapedrive for a while, say three or four weeks or so.

Thanks for that, I'll check it out.

Ed Form

[Christian Katczynski]

Did it work for you?
I had the same error going on and I just had to

modprobe aic7xxx

my old Adaptec SCSI Controller.
The device was just not there.