make tape recovery error

[Jeff Hagstrom]

I have a HPK460/9000 running HPUX 11.i and I'm doing a make tape recory.
Command: make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/1mn

I'm getting an error:
ERROR: /usr/bin/dd if=/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery of=/dev/rmt/1mn bs=2k failed to write LIF onto tape.
ERROR: Failed to generate LIF on tape .

[Torsten.]

Any I/O related messages in syslog?
Could be a bad tape or tape drive.

[Pete Randall]

Hi Jeff,

Did you check to see if /var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery exists?


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Submitted too fast.

Did you try a different tape? Different drive?


Pete

[Jeff Hagstrom]

I did try and different tape, same error. I only have one tape on that machine. There is a uxinstlf.recovery file. Should it be deleted? What does it mean that it is there?

[Torsten.]

I would put a new tape into the drive and try

/usr/bin/dd if=/var/tmp/uxinstlf.recovery of=/dev/rmt/1mn bs=2k

just to test the drive first.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

you need LIF to boot from the tape, this has to be copied to the tape ... that's normal.
What does 'll /dev/rmt' shows?

Volkmar

[Jeff Hagstrom]

The /usr/bin/dd came back with:
I/O error
1777+0 records in
1776+1 records out

Does that mean that the drive is bad? I've tried different tapes.

[V. Nyga]

Ok - /dev is there ...
Have you tried a cleaning tape?

V.

[Fabian Briseño]

Hello Jeff.
It sounds to me that this is either a bad tape or a failing tape drive.

Could you do an fbackup of any directory just to be sure.?

[Jeff Hagstrom]

I tried a cleaning tape early, because the light was blinking. I also tried to tar a file to the tape and it comes back with
a /dev/rmt/1m 0 blocks

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

try the cleaning tape several times.
Else it seems like the drive is broken.

V.