From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 11:43:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from plains.NoDak.edu (plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9917F14E14 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.NoDak.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20027; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:43:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:43:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199904271843.NAA20027@plains.NoDak.edu> To: ip@mcc.ac.uk, kstewart@3-cities.com Subject: Re: UPDATE: DAT always writes short tapes Cc: carlos@gutierrez.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, font@couscous.fortdearborn.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG another thing that can cause a local DAT to suddenly hold less is lack of tape STREAMING. Suddenly my Sony SDT-5000 quit holding as much data as it used to (only on our monthly level 0 dumps). I tried the cleaning and order of dump paths, and it took me a couple of monthly backups to realize that my mrouted running on my backup machine was keeping my tapes from being able to stream. I now kill the mrouted before I run the monthly, full backup script that executes local and remote backups to the tape, and all is well with the backups again. I don't know what cause this streaming problem to suddenly start, but that is an avenue that you may want to try in the search for your problem. --mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message