Error in fbackup

[Jitendra Mhalgi]

Getting following error while performing backup using fbackup,

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fbackup(1004): session begins on Wed Jun 7 17:51:56 2006
fbackup(3203): volume 1 has been used 1 time(s)
fbackup(3024): writing volume 1 to the output file /dev/rmt/0m
fbackup(9999): I/O error
fbackup(3117): write error on a record in the index
fbackup(3025): write error at the beginning of the volume
fbackup(3310): enter '^[yY]' when volume 1 is ready on /dev/rmt/0m,
or '^[nN]' to discontinue:

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Tried using new blank tape but the problem still persists.

Request to help.

[Pete Randall]

Clean the drive?


Pete

[Mridul Shrivastava]

Have you tried tar command on this, if yes then if it is successfull could please answer following questions:

If this has never worked, then:
- Check support status of actual *product*
*and*
- Make sure that the system is up-to-date on I/O, SCSI driver, tape driver and
fbackup/frecover patches.

If this has worked before, then:
- Most likely a hardware error in the drive, i.e. let the drive be
checked/fixed/replaced by hardware people.

[Jitendra Mhalgi]

Already tried by cleaning the drive but no use.

Tried TAR (tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0m /etc/PATH) but for a new tape output is,
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Tar: end of tape
Tar: to continue, enter device/file name when ready or null string to quit.
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I think there is some problem with the tape device.

[Torsten.]

I'm pretty sure you will find some I/O error entries in the syslog. This indicates usually a bad drive. Consider to replace it.
You can test the device with LTT http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/ltt/index.html

[Jitendra Mhalgi]

Yes, the tape drive (hardware) had become faulty & HP people replaced it.

Thank you everybody for the help & immediate response.

[James Calfas]

Maybe this is too obvious to even mention, but I have seen tape problems go away when I power-cycled the computer and tape drive.