From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 15:38: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FEA37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newtonsecond.com (adsl-63-207-117-158.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.207.117.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9A843E09 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:38:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michelle@newtonsecond.com) Received: from [12.43.53.1] (account michelle HELO localhost) by newtonsecond.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 250149 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:36:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:40:07 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: backup problems From: Michelle Weeks To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have been having trouble with backups to a scsi ait tape drive. i have tried using dump and tar and get back i/o errors as well as write protected and permission errors. the tape drive will also lock-up after the i/o errors. i thought it might be caused by a dirty tape drive so i cleaned it, but am still having problems. i just entered in the following command: tar cfv /dev/nrsa0 var and this was the response: tar: can't write to /dev/nrsa0 : Operation not permitted an ls -l of the device shows: crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jul 2 16:06 nrsa0 i am logged in as root when trying to create the backups. do i possibly need to rebuild the device? or is there something i need to do to configure the ait tapes - these are brand new tapes? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message