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? fbackup(1004): session begins on Thu Jan 13 03:15:00 2011 fbackup(3205): WARNING: unable to read a volume header fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/rmt/1m fbackup(3012): WRITE ERROR while writing checkpoint record, at media record 0 fbackup(3102): attempting to make this volume salvagable fbackup(3123): could not read the previous checkpoint record fbackup(3105): writing 2 EOFs and rewinding the tape fbackup(3106): please mount a good tape fbackup(3310): enter '^[yY]' when volume 1 is ready on /dev/rmt/1m, or '^[nN]' to discontinue: fbackup(3004): writer aborting fbackup(1002): Backup did not complete : Reader or Writer process exit
Yes I did. 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. I'll keep watching.
