fbackup/frecover probelms on zx6000

[Sharon Prothero]

I'm having trouble with fbackup/frecover on a zx6000.

If I write to a disk file, everything is ok.

If I use a Super-DLT tape drive, the fbackup completes without any errors, but when I try
frecover I get the following problems ...

frecover -I /tmp/tape_list -f /dev/rmt/1m -v
frecover(2105): did not find expected file marker
frecover(5418): not an fbackup volume; unable to read volume header
frecover(2105): did not find expected file marker
frecover(5412): Do you wish to try to salvage this volume? (/^([nN]|[nN][oO])) y
frecover(5413): attempting to read backup following bad volume header

I get more or less the same result using SAM, but it gives a little more info about the volume header ...

frecover(5413): attempting to read backup following bad volume header
FBACKUP_LABELia64HP-UXB.11.22rohanroot16384Wed. 23 Jun, 2004 09:45:36 AM10012562
6545792 8774 1087980336 _collect.sh
Press to continue sam...

I'm fairly sure that the drive & tape are OK because I can use tar.

The system is running HP-UX 11.22 and has recently been patched as per everything identifed by the output from cpm_collect.sh.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

[Richard Pereira_1]

Hi,

If tar is working , that would seem to indicate no immediate HW issues. Its strange how the cmd line frecover doesnt see a header, but SAM does.

Do you have more than 1 tape drive connected?

[Sharon Prothero]

There are two tape drives in the unit, but only one is connected to the SCSI bus and we've only installed device files for one drive.

[Sharon Prothero]

seems that the problem goes away in HP-UX 11.23