From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 24 09:19:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07277 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 09:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (marck@woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07260 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 09:19:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (marck@localhost) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA00361; Sun, 24 May 1998 20:18:55 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) X-Authentication-Warning: woozle.rinet.ru: marck owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 20:18:55 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Karl Pielorz cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumping really big filesystems to Travan-4 streamer In-Reply-To: <35683536.FA1837DF@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 24 May 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > 0. FreeBSD 2.2.6-R, ufs with 6G of used space, Travan-4 by Seagate (4G > > native size) SCSI tape, hardware compression on. Central thing: file system > > used size is more than 1 tape. > > dumping with command > > > dump -0ua -b 32 -f /dev/nrst0 > > > > leads to error message at the end of the first tape: > > > > DUMP: 57.24% done, finished in 1:40 > > DUMP: write error 3999584 blocks into volume 1 > > DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") > > > > Then, answering "no" leads to abort entire dump; answer "yes" leads to > > remount tape and rewrite backup set from the very beginning, then to the > > same error message. > > > > Any suggestions? > > It sounds like it's not seeing the end of the tape - I've only got a > workaround for this (I've had similar problems in the past) - in the end I > had to turn compression off on the device, and tell dump the actual media > size... I'd also like to know a better 'fix' for this ;-) Well, at least this MAY be useful; however, it's not in my plans to turn compression off forever; so, do you (or someone else?) know tape mode or SCSI command to turn compression off and on? Sincerely, D.Marck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message