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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:23:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Costa Morris <costa@cortx.com>
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Subject: Re: dump errors
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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