[ale] Is this a flaky tape drive

[James P. Kinney III]

>From the dump cron after a failed dump to an ATAPI tape. It barfs at the

same place on the same run: 

Performing backup of /var to /dev/nht0 ..

  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Oct 23 01:07:42 2004
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/md3 (/var) to /dev/nht0
  DUMP: Excluding inode 8 (journal inode) from dump
  DUMP: Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump
  DUMP: Label: var_full
  DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records
  DUMP: Compressing output at compression level 2 (bzlib)
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 322076 blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Sat Oct 23 01:07:53 2004
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: write error 1270 blocks into volume 1: Input/output error
  DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: No such device or address
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
.. backup failed!

>From dmesg:

ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  a, key =  3, asc =  c, ascq =  0
ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  a, key =  3, asc =  c, ascq =  0
ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  a, key =  3, asc =  c, ascq =  0
ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key =  3, asc =  c, ascq =  0
ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark


A previous run:

Backing up /usr/local ...
                                                                                                                    
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Oct 23 00:30:07 2004
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/md4 (/usr/local) to /dev/nht0
  DUMP: Excluding inode 8 (journal inode) from dump
  DUMP: Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump
  DUMP: Label: usr_local_full
  DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records
  DUMP: Compressing output at compression level 2 (bzlib)
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 617 blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Sat Oct 23 00:30:12 2004
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: Closing /dev/nht0
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Sat Oct 23 00:30:13 2004
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:01
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 16 kB/s
  DUMP: Volume 1 530kB uncompressed, 16kB compressed, 33.126:1
  DUMP: 530 blocks (0.52MB) on 1 volume(s)
  DUMP: finished in 1 seconds, throughput 530 kBytes/sec
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Oct 23 00:30:07 2004
  DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Sat Oct 23 00:30:13 2004
  DUMP: Average transfer rate: 16 kB/s
  DUMP: Wrote 530kB uncompressed, 16kB compressed, 33.126:1
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
                                                                                                                    
Backup succeeded


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GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
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