From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 27 10:49:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D157237B405 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.chasma.net (ns2.chasma.net [63.175.99.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0CB043E65 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:49:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fogalt@chasma.net) Received: (qmail 41625 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2002 17:49:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chasma.net) (10.0.0.177) by doc.chasma.net with SMTP; 27 Aug 2002 17:49:11 -0000 Reply-To: fogal_t@chasma.net From: "tom fogal" To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: sa driver problems? Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:51:29 -0400 Message-Id: <20020827174912.E0CB043E65@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi all, im running into issues backing things up with tar directly to /dev/sa0. here's a clip of the mail i get from my backup script: -- I used a command of /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/tar --totals --exclude /usr/local/nfs -cf /dev/sa0 /var /etc /usr/local /root 2>&1' to archive everything Here's what it told me: /usr/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /usr/bin/tar: /var/run/log: socket ignored /usr/bin/tar: /var/run/printer: socket ignored /usr/bin/tar: /usr/local/share/sqwebmail/var/authdaemon/socket: socket ignored /usr/bin/tar: /usr/local/www/logs/gcache: socket ignored Total bytes written: 1664460800 (1.6GB, 426kB/s) /usr/bin/tar: /dev/sa0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes /usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now -- i found an archive dating back to 3.2 which exhibits the same problem, and attributes it to the sa driver: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/gnats/kern/12062 im wondering if anyone else has run into this problem? the tar file on the tape finds an 'Unexpected EOF in archive' and gives up, on what im guessing to be the last file. uname -a: FreeBSD doc.chasma.net 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Fri Aug 23 19:37:18 GMT 2002 tom@doc.chasma.net:/usr/local/nfs/obj/usr/local/nfs/src/sys/doc i386 any ideas? let me know if you need some more info. thanks, -tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message