Topic: Backup error

[tanyu]

Hello!
I'm having a systematic error everynight with my backup on tape.. it ends with :

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 / Fri Dec 17 05:53:28 2004 tar+gzip from webserver" --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

Does anyone have an idea of what is going wrong ?? (I simply set up the backup in the user-panel to execute every night.. did nothing else on my 6.0.1 with last updates from contribs.org...)

tnx in advance for any clue..

[jahlewis]

What sort of tape drive?  Are you sure the system sees it?

at the console, type in st -f /dev/st0 status

If it does, then make sure you have run the cleaner cassette in the drive.  This is another cause of tape-drive problems.