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Hi all,
Since a few weeks flexbackup is producing errors. It worked fine for a long time and I don't know what is happening now. I als posted my last log. Hope someone can help me figuring out what is going wrong.
(using a seagate travan IDE tapebackup) on a sme server 6.04.
flexbackup version 1.1.7 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK
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| Checking 'buffer' on this machine... Ok
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... bash2
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| Doing level 0 backup of set all using tar
| All sets = full (1 tapes)
| Rewinding & erasing tape...
| Creating index key 200405130035
| Backup set full (/ /boot)
| Tape #0
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At block 1191182336.
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| File number 1, tape index 200405130035
| Backup of: /
| Date of this level 0 backup: Thu May 13 00:35:11 2004
| Date of last level 0 backup: the epoch
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| 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 / Thu May 13 00:35:11 2004 tar+gzip from intranet" --sparse
| --atime-preserve -b 20 --file - | gzip -4 | buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100
| -t -p 75 -B -o "/dev/nst0"
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buffer (writer): write of data failed: Invalid argument
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total written 0K
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 / Thu May 13 00:35:11 2004 tar+gzip from intranet" --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
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I get that from time to time when I've neglected to run a cleaning tape through for a couple of weeks or so.
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I never used a cleaning tape before!! (did not know that you should clean the tapedrive) A bit stupid question perhaps but how often should I run a cleaning tape anyway?