Topic: System Backups

[cousin-it]

I have an older IDE tape backup drive in my SME Server 7.1 and would like to use it to back up my system. But, everytime it trys, it gives an error. Do I need to set something up so that I can use this drive? No need in throwing away a good drive if it still works. When I was running SME 6.5 it worked fine. Can anybody tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks,

[idp_qbn]

If you can provide more details (especially of the hardware) then someone may be able to help. eg Make, Model, Error messages, any logs you can find relating to the error.

Cheers
Ian

[cousin-it]

The tape drive is a Seagate STT38000A. I can't remember the error message. It sends it to the admin email. I will have to look later and repost. Thanks.

[cousin-it]

I just found the error message that is getting emailed. It says: "Backup terminated: pre-backup failed - status: 256"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[idp_qbn]

Suunds like a Seagate message: Have you looked on their site for any information about that model Tape Drive? And that error number (or Status number).

Other than that, have you checked in the SME compatible hardware (somewhere on the forums - do a search) to see if SME can handle the tape drive.

Sorry, I can't think of anything to help any further. I don't know much about tape drives, except that one seems to be about 8 years old....or older.

Cheers
Ian

[p-jones]

Its not a seagate message. Seagate messages only come from seagate software. Seagate hardware doesnt understand anything about pre-backups.

You should be able to find out heaps on this drive from googling its model number. It was a very popular device.

[dmay]

I just found the error message that is getting emailed. It says: "Backup terminated: pre-backup failed - status: 256"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

pre-backup is a SME event. The details will be listed in the message log.

# grep pre-backup /var/log/messages
May  8 23:30:34 mail esmith::event[5017]: Processing event: pre-backup

This will return numerous hits, the important info being the event number. Then grep the last event number:

# grep 5017 /var/log/messages

Darrell