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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: John Crisp on April 05, 2002, 01:00:24 AM
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Seem to be having trouble with flexbackup on V5.0.4
I have an internal 20G tape drive with a pair of mirrored 40G disks. Only a couple of gigs of data so far, so no worries on the capacity front I guess.
It seems to run happily for six days and on the seventh disappears off this mortal coil. I am not sure whether the time interval is precise - I need to check again - and this may be a red herring.
More importantly, it seems to die in the middle of a dump (pardon the expression)
If I try to run /sbin/e-smith/backup on the command line it tells me no tape loaded whether one is or not.
/bin/mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind gives 'device or resource busy'
Any ideas as I am stumped !
B. Rgds
John
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We have had exactly the same problem
we have 2 10G diske and a 8g scsi tape backup
Maybee the thing just gets bored????????
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I would agree on the boredom bit. Not the most exciting task to undetake admittedly !
Nice to know I am not alone. However I wish I knew what the answer is !
Apart from being a bit of a nightmare and totally unreliable......Means that I have to go to my clients every 5 or 6 days to check it. And I can't see a way of getting it to work without a re-boot.
Not impressed.
Anyone else got any ideas on this please ? Or where I might be able to look ?
B. Rgds
John