I've found that fbackup does not appear to do what's reported. We use a Sony AIT-2. Please see the examples below: Example 1. ---------- # fbackup -f - -i /101/101/tttutl -v > /dev/rmt/0m fbackup(1004): session begins on Tue May 10 13:56:20 2005 fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file - 1: / 16 2: /101 1 3: /101/101 4 4: /101/101/tttutl 1 5: /101/101/tttutl/checkfile 1 6: /101/101/tttutl/tutl947101.bdt 8 7: /101/101/tttutl/tutl947101.bid 48 fbackup(1005): run time: 1 seconds fbackup(3055): total file blocks read for backup: 79 fbackup(3056): total blocks written to output file -: 120 # frecover -x -N -v -f - < /dev/rmt/0m #
I have never seen using fbackup with a redirect (>) to device file. Have a look at the man pages of fbackup and frecover. Here is what i would suggest to use
# fbackup -v -i /101/101/tttutl -f /dev/rmt/0m fbackup(1004): session begins on Tue May 10 17:00:36 2005 fbackup(3038): output file /dev/rmt/0m is not a valid device file for backup fbackup(3019): would you like to enter a new output file? n fbackup(3022): would you like to continue this session? n fbackup(3004): writer aborting fbackup(1002): Backup did not complete : Reader or Writer process exit
