On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:22:21PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> since you are using a tape, have you checked with
> dmesg (for kernel message about the tape)
> mt errstat (cryptic output, but maybe someone here could help)
I get this in my dmesg output:
(sa0:ahc0:0:1:0): AutoSense Failed
(sa0:ahc0
On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:22, David Bear wrote:
> btw, I wonder how many tape unit users get burned by the fact that
> they don't test their tapes -- and when they need the tape find that
> it was bad..
I back up to CDs, and have it md5 the file going onto the CD then md5 it off
again. It
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> for me, my experience down scsi
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:29:26PM -0500, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0500, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> > I have some backup scripts that manipulate a tape library and tape
> > drive to perform my nightly backups. Ever since the switch from
> > gtar to bsdtar in t
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0500, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> I have some backup scripts that manipulate a tape library and tape
> drive to perform my nightly backups. Ever since the switch from
> gtar to bsdtar in the base system, gtar fails to write any data
> to my tape and usually puts
