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From: "Joe Joplin" <joejop@triad.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: backup problems
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:21:41 -0400
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Have you tried to see if you could use  the mt commands?  Like

mt status (this will user the default tape device)
or mt -f  /dev/nrsa0 status

Also mt rewind to test commands.  If you post your dmesg with lines
detecting the tape drive, that would help.

Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Weeks" <michelle@newtonsecond.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 6:40 PM
Subject: backup problems


> 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?
>
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