Topic: Tape backup oddity

[boringgit]

Hiya,

I have a Sony DDS3 tape drive, which has a stated capacity of 12/24 Gb (uncompressed/compressed).

The Backup panel on the server manager tells me that I have about 11Gb in total on my SME server, yet it always fails at 8Gb, telling me there is insufficient room...

buffer (writer): write of data failed: No space left on device
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written    7822940K

Wondering if it would help, I went into the flexbackup conf file and changed compression to hardware, but I have a feeling that the command being run by SME is overriding this option back to Gzip...

Any ideas anybody?

[Anonymous]

Your tape couldn't be a 6/12 by any chance, could it ?

[boringgit]

That's the only thing I am sure of, as it had a long life on a windows box before I moved it.

Not sure if SME knows that though....

How do I check to see what SME thinks it is? I don't think I had to load any drivers for it, SME just picked it up after I told it to load the SCSI module...

[Kelvin]

Can you tell us what tape cartridge you are inserting ? DDS 90m, DDS2 120m or DDS3 125m ?

Also, how much free space does your server hard disk have ?

Kelvin

[boringgit]

Hiya,

The tapes are indeed 125M DDS3 (have tried various brands - all cast offs, so I do know that they work...)

The drive is a Sony SDT 9000

The HDD had approx 29 Gb free (40 Gb drive)

I say "did" because I have just reinstalled. Not because of this problem, in fact I only really focused on the backup problem because of the fact that the old box was rapidly dying (fan had failed, half cooking the CPU).

The old box was upgraded all the way from SME 3 ish I think - this new box has a fresh install of SME6.01 and picked up the drive from the off, so I am hopeful that it may have been an issue caused by the repeated upgrades.

Will let you know if this has solved the problem once I have loaded more than 8Gb back onto the server.

Thanks