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Date:      Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:37:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        acorreia@marlin.com.br (Alexsandro D. F. Correia)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsp.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with backups!!! (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199608261137.NAA25993@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960826071546.7124C-100000@blue.marlin.com.br> from "Alexsandro D. F. Correia" at "Aug 26, 96 07:18:44 am"

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> Sirs,
> 
> 	Last week a sent a message , asking for help !!
> I think my message didn't arrive to you.
>  
> 	I'm  having a terrible problem here to restore my backups, and i 
> hope you can help me.
> 	Bellow, you can read the original message.

What type of tape do you have? Is it an HP DAT ? What does the
output of 'dmesg' show?

Have you tried 

mt -f /dev/rst0 blocksize 256k 

Just guessing.

> 
> 	Thanx a lot.
> 
> 			Alexsandro
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:21:11 -0300 (EST)
> From: Alexsandro D. F. Correia <acorreia@marlin.com.br>
> To: questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
> Subject: Problems with backups!!!
> 
> 
> Hi Sirs,
> 
> I'm having lots of troubles with my backups, and i hope someone can HELP ME.
> 
> Here we have two machines with the same configuration.
> Pentium 100, 32 Mb RAM, HD 2.0 gb SCSI and a DAT TAPE DRIVER (EXABYTE) .
> Running FreeBSD 2.1.
> 
> That's the problem i have.
> 
> When i try to restore a backup, using tar for examplem my system crashes.
> Here follows the error msg the system sends to me:
> 
> 	ahc0:target 3,lun 0 (st0) timet out
> 	st0(ahc0:3:0):BUS DEVICE RESET message
> 		      Queued.
> 	st0(ahc0:3:0):TAEGET Busy
> 	ahc0:A:3:no active SCB for reconnecting 
> 		 target - issuing ABORT.
> 	SAVED_TCL == 0x30
> 	ahc0:target1,lun0(sd0) timed out
> 
> By the way, I tested the restore on both machines, using CPIO and TAR. 
> But everytime i try to access something from the tape to the HD, the 
> system crashes.
> 
> 
> Please, I'll be very glad if someone help me.
> 	 
> Thanx a lot.
> 
> 		Alexsandro Correia
> 		
> 
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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