ftio error

[David Gartner]

Hi

I'm using ftio to create backup archives for a remote machine.

The command I'm using on the remote machine is the following;

ftio -O -K 'archive backup' fred:/dev/rmt/0m /archive/

I have the following line in my .ftiorc file located in my home area on the remote machine

O= cppvE -L /home/fred/ftio.log

The amount of data being backed up exceeds the capacity of one DAT tape. The domumentation indicates that ftio will create an archive over multiple volumes (tapes) if necessary. However after one tape gets filled the following error gets generated;

ioctl to get status from device failed. aborting...
ftio: unexpected death of child process - exiting

We're using HP-UX 10.20, the machine with the DDS2 tape drive is a J2240 workstation.

Any ideas?

David

[Robin Wakefield]

I wonder what happens if you don't specify the "pp" option, since this is writing to the eot, and may be screwing things up.

Robin