Backup message error

[Edgar Ulloa]

I have a es0045 with ovms 7.3-1
the tape unit 120/220 gb sdlt
the tape sdlt 1 160/320 GB

mi procedure of backups looks like fine but when try the see the save.set show me the error

my procedure
$ BACKUP/LOG/IGNORE=INTER-/IGNORE=LABEL/MEDIA_FORMAT=COMPACTION-
/BLOCKSIZE=65534 -/NOASSIST -
$1$DGA11:[000000...]*.*;*-
$1$MKA600:$1$DGA11.SAV-
/save

$ BACKUP/LIST $1$MKA600:
%BACKUP-E-READERR, error reading $1$MKA600:[000000].;
-BACKUP-E-SHORTBLOCK, save-set block too short

thanks for your comments

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Help/mes says
Data in the save set is corrupt.

Clean heads ? Bad or very old tape ? Show error command reporting drive errors ?

Wim

[Jeff Chisholm · Accepted solution]

Hi Edgar,
Collapse the 2 /ignore qualifiers into one, as /IGNORE=(INTER,LABEL). I forget which way this works, but one of your /ignores is being ignored.

There's a problem in the v731_fibre_scsi-v0700 kit. Engineering released a remedial sys$pkwdriver to address this very problem. BACKUP returns "SHORTBLOCK" error when reading tape savesets. There will not be an official ECO kit, since V7.3-1 is no longer supported.

Send me mail to jeff.chisholm@hp.com and I'll put a copy on the ftp site for you.

[Volker Halle]

Edgar,

thanks for providing a detailled error message. This really helps in identifying the problem.

See the following thread for another recent discussion about this problem:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=981957

Volker.

[Edgar Ulloa]

I was clean the tape heads,

yesterday I was backup in new sdlt tape and the backup was without error.

only the backup/list and restore show me the message again.

im in ods-2 and probably the patch will help to me.

another suggest..?

Thanks

[Jeff Chisholm]

I pulled down a copy of the SYS$PKWDRIVER.EXE_QXCM1000243254 and placed it on the ftp site for Edgar, with directions for checksum-ing and loading it. We just got lucky this time, usually the recommendation is to upgrade.

[Volker Halle]

Edgar,

it may look fine, if backup does not produce any errors while saving the files to tape, but you're really interested in what's on the tape afterwards !

As was said in a presentation at the OpenVMS Technical Update Days:

'You do NOT need to test your BACKUP procedures, just test your RESTORE procedures !'

Volker.