https://community.hpe.com/t5/storeever-tape-storage/fbackup/m-p/2793104#M4558 Hi,<BR /><BR />The volume header error message (3205) means that the last time the tape media was used it was not in 'fbackup' format. It could have been tar, cpio or even a new tape. The second part of the message (3204) means that 'fbackup' is writing it's header information and starts the backup.<BR /><BR />HTH<BR />Michael Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:19:24 GMT Michael Tully 2002-08-23T20:19:24Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/storeever-tape-storage/fbackup/m-p/2793103#M4557 Hi!<BR /><BR />I perfoming a full backup using the fbackup commmand:<BR />fbackup -f /dev/rmt/4m -n -i . -I index.pwd<BR /><BR />After executing this command I got the follow warning message:<BR />fbackup(1004): session begins on Fri Aug 23 18:47:52 2002<BR />fbackup(3205): WARNING: unable to read a volume header<BR />fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/rmt/4m<BR /><BR />Is this something that I need be careful??<BR /><BR />After this message the backup started normally. Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:45:28 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/storeever-tape-storage/fbackup/m-p/2793103#M4557 Tiago Marques_2 2002-08-23T19:45:28Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/storeever-tape-storage/fbackup/m-p/2793104#M4558 Hi,<BR /><BR />The volume header error message (3205) means that the last time the tape media was used it was not in 'fbackup' format. It could have been tar, cpio or even a new tape. The second part of the message (3204) means that 'fbackup' is writing it's header information and starts the backup.<BR /><BR />HTH<BR />Michael Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:19:24 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/storeever-tape-storage/fbackup/m-p/2793104#M4558 Michael Tully 2002-08-23T20:19:24Z