Topic: scsi/dat 72 tape backup?

[docspawn]

Dear all, new to this sme world but just set up a sme 6.5 server with all working fine but the backups failing. I've got a adaptec 2920 scsi card and hp dat72i, should this work ?  Also need beginers help with setting up antivirus and spam filters if poss ? Thanks all D.S.

[jackl]

docspawn,

Are you sure you have an 2920 scsi card, as I far as I can remember these cards are scsi/scsi-2 with 50 pin connection but the hp 72i is a high density 68 pin lvd ultra scsi device. I know the dat 72i will work fine with SME using generic ultra 2 scsi cards however we never used them with Adaptec cards so can't comment on that.

Regards
Jack.

[mrjhb3]

Dear all, new to this sme world but just set up a sme 6.5 server with all working fine but the backups failing. I've got a adaptec 2920 scsi card and hp dat72i, should this work ?  Also need beginers help with setting up antivirus and spam filters if poss ? Thanks all D.S.

Check you log (/var/log/messages) and post what it says after you have tried to initiate a backup.

JB

[docspawn]

Started backup at 19.10.Its seems to tickle the tape drive then nowt.As posted its an HP dat72 and i've tried a couple of lvd SCSI card including a 2940uw and a 19160. Is it more likely to be a scsi card
problem ? I notice the tape drive just blinks no stop, if this is an clue !
Thanks for any help  D.S.
 
su(pam_unix)[2484]: session opened for user qmailr by (uid=0)
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: OLD 1119636601=(undefined)
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: NEW 1119636601=backup_record
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: OLD 1119636601=backup_record
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: NEW 1119636601=backup_record|StartEpochTime|1119636601
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: OLD 1119636601=backup_record|StartEpochTime|1119636601
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: NEW 1119636601=backup_record|BackupType|tape|StartEpochTime|1119636601
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: Processing event: pre-backup tape
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-backup/S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables=action|Event|pre-backup|Action|S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables|Start|1119636601 168038|End|1119636601 385889|Elapsed|0.217851
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-backup/S20mysql-dump-tables
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: S20mysql-dump-tables=action|Event|pre-backup|Action|S20mysql-dump-tables|Start|1119636601 386453|End|1119636601 855322|Elapsed|0.468869
Jun 24 19:10:01 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-backup/S25gentle-ldap-dump
Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: S25gentle-ldap-dump=action|Event|pre-backup|Action|S25gentle-ldap-dump|Start|1119636601 855870|End|1119636602 212548|Elapsed|0.356678
Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-backup/S50rewind-tape
Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: /dev/st0: No such device
Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: S50rewind-tape=action|Event|pre-backup|Action|S50rewind-tape|Start|1119636602 213113|End|1119636602 483173|Elapsed|0.27006|Status|256
Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: OLD 1119636601=backup_record|BackupType|tape|StartEpochTime|1119636601
Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: NEW 1119636601=backup_record|BackupType|tape|EndEpochTime|1119636602|StartEpochTime|1119636601
Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: OLD 1119636601=backup_record|BackupType|tape|EndEpochTime|1119636602|StartEpochTime|1119636601
Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver /sbin/e-smith/do_backup[2483]: /home/e-smith/backups: NEW 1119636601=backup_record|BackupType|tape|EndEpochTime|1119636602|Result|pre-backup:256|StartEpochTime|1119636601
Jun 24 19:10:04 gcserver su(pam_unix)[2484]: session closed for user qmailr

[mrjhb3]

Jun 24 19:10:02 gcserver esmith::event[2492]: /dev/st0: No such device

This seems to be the issue.  Flexbackup isn't seeing your tape drive.  Try this - dmesg | grep scsi - and see if that shows anything about your tape drive.  When you solve this issue, I am guessing that this will solve your backup issues.

JB

[docspawn]

Jackl Can you tell me what scsi card you have used the dat72i with in the past ? I cannot get any Adptec scsi card to work with the backups. On boot up the card and tape is recognised but thats as far as goes ! cheers D.S.

[stefan]

Hello docspawn

I use on several SME's (6.01 and 6.5) dat72 drives. For dat72 I use the Adaptec AH1540 adapter with the latest firmware (2.57 I think?!?). Maybe you can get a newer version. This combination run every day for backup about 55GB and I had never trouble.

Kind regards
Stefan

[jackl]

DS
I have used MRI scsi cards with Initio Corporation 360p chipset. Try cat/proc/pci this should display information about your scsi card, if it doesn't it means the system hasn't detected it.
This will show all pci cards on your system here is an excerpt from one of mine:

Bus  1, device  11, function  0:
    SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 2).
      IRQ 9.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      I/O at 0x2800 [0x28ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4102000 [0xf4102fff].

Hope this helps

Regards
Jack