fbackup error

[O'lnes]

I use 'fbcakup' on my HPUX 10.20 , it pop up the following error. Can suggest how to solve? Thx.

write error on an FSM in the ANSII label
write error at the beginning of the volume

[Jerome Baron]

Hi,

What's draiver tape are you using ?
Does "tar" run ? If not change your drive.

Regards,
Jerome

[steven Burgess_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi

I would try with another tape before changing the drive.

Have you cleaned the drive ? check the cleaning light isn't flashing.

Can you read from a tape that has a previous fbackup ?

frecover -V `tty`

This will get the header information from the tape. If fbackup doesn't see a valid header when trying to backup it will attempt to write one.

And as suggested try and tar some data to the tape

tar -cvf test.out /tmp/

HTH

Steve