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- From: sivbl@win4.vut.EDU.AU (Brett L Sivies)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
- Subject: Re: /etc/dump (backup) errors
- Message-ID: <sivbl.716535512@win4>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 05:38:32 GMT
- References: <1992Sep09.215425.18559@wvus.org>
- Sender: news@matilda.vut.edu.au (News at Matilda)
- Organization: Victoria University Of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
- Lines: 34
-
- Hi,
-
- pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory) writes:
-
- >we use /etc/dump - the filesystem dump program here. two years ago i
- >wrote a shell-script wrapper for it so the operators could just answer
- >questions. that works fine, if i tell dump to write directly to output
- >device. if i tell dump to write to stdout (an allowable feature
- >according to the man page), it writes several error messages to the
- >screen at the end of the dump that say "DUMP: Failure to acquire
- >semaphore", "DUMP: Failure to release semaphore" and "DUMP: Possibly
- >corrupted archive" (i'm not sure about the exact text of the last one).
-
- 1. Yes the problem has arrisen for myself, and with the help of sequent I
- was able to fix the problem straight away... Is the Tape drive you are
- using an Exabyte or standard .25 cartridge?
- My problem centred around an exebyte drive on a S27.
- We had to make sure the tape drive was getting all the right parameters
- before it would work correctly...
-
- /etc/dump 0sbdfu 15070 8 500000 /dev/rmt/<tape> /dev/dsk/<disk>
-
- This is running under PTX 1.3.0 and it works fine dumping to an exabyte
- drive.
-
- Hope this helps..
-
- bye
-
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