On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:29 +0000, Fergus Wilde wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if anyone can help me out with the following. Any or all > help, including 'this has nothing > to do with OBSD', or options to try passing > to the dump, happily received. In particular, I wonder > if my situation is > analogous with the facts of the case here: > http://old.nabble.com/Restore-from-SCSI-tape-on-recent-i386-snapshot-td288246 > 13.html > > although unlike the OP in this case I have *not* had it working right > beforehand > as this is a new machine. > > This is with snapshot 5.1 GENERIC.MP#253 > i386 and the two previous snapshots on my > local mirror. Dmesg and > /var/run/dmesg.boot below. > > Machine is an HP 350ML G6 using 3-disk hardware > RAID 5 with a Quantum Ultrium LTO 5 external drive. > > > And so on for the other mounts on the array. The amount of > time this takes appears realistic, but since > I can't successfully test the > dump, I don't know if it is 'really' doing a backup. > > Attempting to test the > dump: > > # /sbin/restore -tvs 1 -f /dev/rst0 > Verify tape and initialize maps > restore: tape read error: Input/output error > > > For interest, I tried using tar > to backup the root partition. Again, this seemed to work fine from the write > side, but on attempting to read I again got an Input/output error. > > Thanks for > any thoughts! > > mpii0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic SAS2008" rev 0x03: msi > scsibus1 at mpii0: 258 targets > st0 at scsibus1 targ 5 lun 0: <QUANTUM, ULTRIUM > 5, 3180> SCSI4 1/sequential removable naa.00e09e60001d700e
hi, can you attach a hard drive to the controller (SATA will do) and run some simple tests with it: partition, newfs, do some file copying. see if it works for you. newer lsi firmwares are known to be a bit different and don't work very well with the current driver.
