From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 15 11: 9:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fire.mhi-tx.com (www.mhi-tx.com [208.243.253.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068681560C for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@mhi-tx.com) Received: from mhi-tx.com (robert.mhi-tx.com [192.168.1.200]) by fire.mhi-tx.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA29300 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:08:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from robert@mhi-tx.com) Message-ID: <36ED5B73.8E5101CD@mhi-tx.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:11:48 -0600 From: robert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd list Subject: dump problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello, I am having a problem with dump or my tape drive. I have a partition 2gig /usr that I am trying to backup onto an hp dat drive with a 2gb tape (4gb) compressed. however near the end of the backup about 77% I get a tape write error. and I am asked if I want to restart. if I say yes this continues over and over at 77% otherwise it aborts and I dont get all of my backup. I have a feeling that it is at the end of the tape and instead of the drive giving a end of medium it just spits out an error, therefore not giving me the chance to put in another tape. I tried using -s feet but my tapes say 90meter wich is about 968 feet but that says I will need like 156 tapes to do this backup which can't be right. I have an hp surestore 2000. any clues would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance. robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message