https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/fbackup-errors/m-p/4737794#M387007 I assume you tried a new tape? Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:31:24 GMT Dennis Handly 2011-01-14T11:31:24Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/fbackup-errors/m-p/4737793#M387006 About a week ago, my backups started to fail every night with the errors below. It's a QUANTUM DLT8000. The strange thing is that fbackup fails but tar seems OK. Any ideas?<BR />fbackup(1004): session begins on Thu Jan 13 03:15:00 2011<BR />fbackup(3205): WARNING: unable to read a volume header<BR />fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/rmt/1m<BR />fbackup(3012): WRITE ERROR while writing checkpoint record, at media record 0<BR />fbackup(3102): attempting to make this volume salvagable<BR />fbackup(3123): could not read the previous checkpoint record<BR />fbackup(3105): writing 2 EOFs and rewinding the tape<BR />fbackup(3106): please mount a good tape<BR />fbackup(3310): enter '^[yY]' when volume 1 is ready on /dev/rmt/1m,<BR /> or '^[nN]' to discontinue:<BR />fbackup(3004): writer aborting<BR />fbackup(1002): Backup did not complete : Reader or Writer process exit Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:48:29 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/fbackup-errors/m-p/4737793#M387006 Ian Lochray 2011-01-13T09:48:29Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/fbackup-errors/m-p/4737794#M387007 I assume you tried a new tape? Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:31:24 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/fbackup-errors/m-p/4737794#M387007 Dennis Handly 2011-01-14T11:31:24Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/fbackup-errors/m-p/4737795#M387008 Yes I did.<BR />Yesterday I did a big tar which worked fine. I then powered the drive off and on and, for the first time in a week, the fbackup subsequently worked.<BR />I'll keep watching. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:34:35 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/fbackup-errors/m-p/4737795#M387008 Ian Lochray 2011-01-14T11:34:35Z