Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:23:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Costa Morris <costa@cortx.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump errors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980123132305.8161u-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bd2743$a0eab3b0$0cddcfcf@cman.cortx.com>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Costa Morris wrote: > i just installed a new seagate 4gb tape backup unit and i got this when i > tried running a full dump: > > DUMP: 36.91% done, finished in 0:17 > DUMP: 56.16% done, finished in 0:11 > DUMP: 75.52% done, finished in 0:06 > DUMP: write error 694350 blocks into volume 1 > ### DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured > ### DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jan 22 00:18:24 1998 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0s1e (/var) to /dev/nrst0 > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 62159 tape blocks. > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: write error 10 blocks into volume 1 > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured > ###DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > the command i ran was (off a script): > > /sbin/dump 0uaf $TAPE $filesystem Were you running this in the background? dump expects to be run on a tty and not backgrounded. It's trying to tell you that your tape is bad. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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