Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes: > On Jan 05 12:19:13, o...@drijf.net wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 11:33:13AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: >> >> > On Jan 05 10:58:02, o...@drijf.net wrote: >> > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:19:54AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: >> > > >> > > > This is a daily mail from my Alix router. >> > > > I do a dump in daily.local (see below) >> > > > and most of the time it works just fine. >> > > > Occasionaly though, the DUMP fails saying >> > > > >> > > > > DUMP: End of tape detected >> > > > > DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Mon Jan 5 01:30:44 2015 >> > > > > DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:07 >> > > > > DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 2101 KB/s >> > > > > DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 >> > > > > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured >> > > > > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. >> > > > >> > > > That puzzles me, as I dump to stdout, >> > > > redirecting to a file (see below). >> > > > >> > > > (I vaguely remember that the reason I switched from >> > > > "dump -f file.dump ..." to "dump -f - ... > file.dump" >> > > > was that I was advised her by a developer about >> > > > the tape legacy of dump, but I forgot what exactly >> > > > was the problem then and can't find it in archives.) >> > > > >> > > > Why would "dump -f - ... > file.dump" think >> > > > that it reached an end of tape? >> > > >> > > Because dump is a bit dumb. You need to use -a, see man page. >> > >> > But I do, see the code below. >> >> Hmm indeed, then it's my guess you are running out of disk. The >> numbers do not seems to warrant that, though. > > Hm. This is dump of level 0, on a Monday morning, > when I rm the previous dumps and start anew > - could it be that the free space made by rm > only becomes available a _bit_ late due to softdep? > > [ "x$l" = "x0" ] && rm -f $BKPDIR/dump$fsname.? > f=$BKPDIR/dump$fsname.$l > > $f && chown $BKPUSR:$BKPGRP $f && chmod 600 $f > dump -$l -a -u -f - $fs > $f 2> $BKPLOG > > Because that happens, right? Create a few huge files > on a softdep FS, then remove them; the free space > only "appears a bit later". > > I will try to add a sync in between the rm and the dump -0
I have had this type of message when dump asks some question to the operator. I don't remember what the issue was and cannot reproduce. It was on level 1 dump too. -- Manuel Giraud
