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fbackup problems

Dimitri Karagiannis — Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:22:50 GMT

Hi,

I use fbackup to do my os backups every week but all of a sudden today the fbackup just froze. The session starts but nothing is written to the tape. I checked the tape and everything is good with it and also everything is good with the fgraph and fconf file. If anybody knows of any other reason it would be appreciated.

Re: fbackup problems

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:47:55 GMT

Could you post your fbackup command?
Are you backing up to a remote tapedrive?
are you able to create tar files to the tape?
when you ioscan, does it report the the tape drive is claimed?
is it possible that your scsi bus is not terminated?

Re: fbackup problems

Dimitri Karagiannis — Wed, 06 Sep 2000 19:42:44 GMT

I'm not using a remote device, but i am able to tar to it.And when i use ioscan my device is claimed.

Re: fbackup problems

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:30:24 GMT

Hi:

OK, are there any NFS mounts specified in your graph files? Also, are any of the fbackup tasks getting any process time?

...JRF...

Re: fbackup problems

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 06 Sep 2000 22:12:06 GMT

Hi:

One other question: Do you specifically exclude /cdrom and /SD_CDROM in your graphs? Is it possible that you don't and that you have a CD mounted when you normally don't? I'd like to know the fbackup options you are using too. Do you invoke "-l" for LOFS files? Have you expected fbackup to start writing to the tape; not noted this; and killed fbackup (NOT a good thing to do!!!).

...JRF...

...JRF...