Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:55:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Transferring dump file to tape? Message-ID: <200505172355.j4HNtiFe001177@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050517221411.GA1499@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> > > But, even doing that doesn't fix the problem we often see with > > writes to tape failing in that manner.=20 > >=20 > > dd itself is reliable. It is tried and true. I think our > > failures come from something in the sa driver because a drive > > that fails usually fails for everything except maybe tar and dump. > > Are you absolutely certain that the tape device is not in use at the > time that the application receives the error? Yes. It can even happen in single user. So far I have only had the problem with various levels of DAT tapes. It has never failed that way with DLTs. ////jerry > > Kris >
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