https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/ftio-error/m-p/2549391#M27876 Hi <BR /><BR />I'm using ftio to create backup archives for a remote machine. <BR /><BR />The command I'm using on the remote machine is the following;<BR /><BR /> ftio -O -K 'archive backup' fred:/dev/rmt/0m /archive/<BR /><BR />I have the following line in my .ftiorc file located in my home area on the remote machine<BR /><BR /> O= cppvE -L /home/fred/ftio.log<BR /><BR />The amount of data being backed up exceeds the capacity of one DAT tape. The domumentation indicates that ftio will create an archive over multiple volumes (tapes) if necessary. However after one tape gets filled the following error gets generated;<BR /><BR />ioctl to get status from device failed. aborting...<BR />ftio: unexpected death of child process - exiting<BR /><BR />We're using HP-UX 10.20, the machine with the DDS2 tape drive is a J2240 workstation.<BR /><BR />Any ideas?<BR /><BR />David Thu, 05 Jul 2001 20:24:51 GMT David Gartner 2001-07-05T20:24:51Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/ftio-error/m-p/2549391#M27876 Hi <BR /><BR />I'm using ftio to create backup archives for a remote machine. <BR /><BR />The command I'm using on the remote machine is the following;<BR /><BR /> ftio -O -K 'archive backup' fred:/dev/rmt/0m /archive/<BR /><BR />I have the following line in my .ftiorc file located in my home area on the remote machine<BR /><BR /> O= cppvE -L /home/fred/ftio.log<BR /><BR />The amount of data being backed up exceeds the capacity of one DAT tape. The domumentation indicates that ftio will create an archive over multiple volumes (tapes) if necessary. However after one tape gets filled the following error gets generated;<BR /><BR />ioctl to get status from device failed. aborting...<BR />ftio: unexpected death of child process - exiting<BR /><BR />We're using HP-UX 10.20, the machine with the DDS2 tape drive is a J2240 workstation.<BR /><BR />Any ideas?<BR /><BR />David Thu, 05 Jul 2001 20:24:51 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/ftio-error/m-p/2549391#M27876 David Gartner 2001-07-05T20:24:51Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/ftio-error/m-p/2549392#M27877 I wonder what happens if you don't specify the "pp" option, since this is writing to the eot, and may be screwing things up.<BR /><BR />Robin Fri, 06 Jul 2001 06:43:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/ftio-error/m-p/2549392#M27877 Robin Wakefield 2001-07-06T06:43:33Z