I have contacted Seagate, and of course they say the blame is with the Software. There response and my posting to them are shown below. Is it possible I need to change some settings in the flexbackup configuration?
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Seagate Response
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For answers as to why a software program may overwrite previous
sessions on a tape the manufacturer of the software must be contacted
as the software issues the commands to the tape drive on which
parts of the tape gets written to. This is not a function of the hardware
as the hardware is waiting for commands from the software program.
The tape diagnostic is seeing the tape drive correctly as all marketing
numbers from the box are not imbedded in the firmware and the tape drive
should identify as an STT20000A by the diagnostic and you are at the
latest version of the software.
David B.
Seagate Technical Support
========== Customer's original message ==========
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I have a STT22000A-RFT drive installed in a Linux server. I have
downloaded the Linux diagnostics and run them. They seem to show no
problems but identify the drive as an STT200000A, firmware 8A51. I am
using the tape provided with the drive. When I run a backup each night it
attempts to write everything at Block 0. When I check the contents of the
tape only the /boot directory appears (this is the last thing backed up).
It appears everything gets backup up but since the drive writes everything
to Block 0 everything before the last set is overwritten. This is the
message I receive:
For answers as to why a software program may overwrite previous
sessions on a tape the manufacturer of the software must be contacted
as the software issues the commands to the tape drive on which
parts of the tape gets written to. This is not a function of the hardware
as the hardware is waiting for commands from the software program.
The tape diagnostic is seeing the tape drive correctly as all marketing
numbers from the box are not imbedded in the firmware and the tape drive
should identify as an STT20000A by the diagnostic and you are at the
latest version of the software.
David B.
Seagate Technical Support
========== Customer's original message ==========
========================================================
I have a STT22000A-RFT drive installed in a Linux server. I have
downloaded the Linux diagnostics and run them. They seem to show no
problems but identify the drive as an STT200000A, firmware 8A51. I am
using the tape provided with the drive. When I run a backup each night it
attempts to write everything at Block 0. When I check the contents of the
tape only the /boot directory appears (this is the last thing backed up).
It appears everything gets backup up but since the drive writes everything
to Block 0 everything before the last set is overwritten.
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See original posting for contents of the backup message I receive.
The contents of my flexbackup.conf file are:
#------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It is updated automatically by the
# SME Server software. Instead, modify the source template in
# an /etc/e-smith/templates-custom directory. For more
# information, see
http://www.e-smith.org/custom/#
# copyright (C) 2002 Mitel Networks Corporation
#------------------------------------------------------------
$afio_echo_block = 'false';
$afio_compress_threshold = '3';
$afio_compress_cache_size = '2';
$blksize = '10';
$mt_var_blksize = 'true';
$buffer = 'true';
$buffer_megs = '3';
$pad_blocks = 'true';
$compress = 'gzip';
$compr_level = '4';
$cpio_format = 'newc';
$device = '/dev/st0';
$dump_length = '0';
$dump_use_dumpdates = 'false';
$erase_rewind_only = 'false';
$erase_tape_all_level_zero = 'true';
$exclude_expr[0] = 'news/articles';
$exclude_expr[1] = '.*~$';
$remoteshell = 'ssh';
$verbose = 'true';
$sparse = 'true';
$indexes = 'true';
$logdir = "/var/log/flexbackup";
$stampdir = "/var/state/flexbackup";
$index = "$stampdir/index";
$comp_log = "gzip";
$prefix = "";
$sprefix = "";
$tmpdir = "/tmp";
$nocompress_types = 'mp3 Z z gz gif zip lha jpeg jpg taz tgz deb rpm bz2';
$tar_echo_record_num = 'false';
$tar_atime_preserve = 'true';
$traverse_fs = 'false';
$filesystems[0] = '/ /boot';
$type = 'dump';
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