Transferring dump file to tape?
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Tue May 17 16:55:52 PDT 2005
>
> > But, even doing that doesn't fix the problem we often see with
> > writes to tape failing in that manner.=20
> >=20
> > dd itself is reliable. It is tried and true. I think our
> > failures come from something in the sa driver because a drive
> > that fails usually fails for everything except maybe tar and dump.
>
> Are you absolutely certain that the tape device is not in use at the
> time that the application receives the error?
Yes. It can even happen in single user. So far I have only had the
problem with various levels of DAT tapes. It has never failed that way
with DLTs.
////jerry
>
> Kris
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