Re: desperate - weird error during ontape restore

During backup ontape opens a file descriptor and writes until it reaches TAPESIZE, and then asks for another tape. It doesn't ask for or get responses from the tape device, so it will not know when it reaches EOT (end of tape). Change the TAPESIZE parameter to a valid tape size, and try another backup/restore. Hope this information helps. Brice Avila Minneapolis, Minnesota emebohw@netscape.net (sumGirl) wrote in message news:<a5e13cff.0408140245.7e3a1de7@posting.google.com>... > Ugh. Trying to restore an ontape backup and getting the following > error. > ---start error info > Read/Write End Of Medium enabled: blocks = 99542 > Please mount tape 2 on /dev/rmt0 and press Return to continue ... > <we mount the tape and press enter> > Read/Write End Of Medium enabled: missing blocks, expect 99544, > processed 99542. > Physical restore failed - function buc_fe.c : Archive API processing > failed at l > ine 791 for msgtype failed code -1 errno 0 > ---end error info > > I have determined that its not a bad tape set and the tapes are in the > correct order. I have also tried another set of tapes just in case! > Relevant onconfig settings: > > TAPEDEV /dev/rmt0 > TAPEBLK 256 # Tape block size (Kbytes) > TAPESIZE 0 # should use entire tape

Uh, just learned that TAPESIZE = 0 is new to 9.4. So this is an "Ugh". Try archiving/restoring from/to disk, and see if you get the same response. HTH. Brice Avila briceavila@hotmail.com (Brice Avila) wrote in message news:<c46e3ec5.0408160608.5ab9ea3a@posting.google.com>... > During backup ontape opens a file descriptor and writes until it > reaches TAPESIZE, and then asks for another tape. It doesn't ask for > or get responses from the tape device, so it will not know when it > reaches EOT (end of tape). Change the TAPESIZE parameter to a valid > tape size, and try another backup/restore. Hope this information > helps. > > Brice Avila > Minneapolis, Minnesota > > emebohw@netscape.net (sumGirl) wrote in message news:<a5e13cff.0408140245.7e3a1de7@posting.google.com>... > > Ugh. Trying to restore an ontape backup and getting the following > > error. > > ---start error info > > Read/Write End Of Medium enabled: blocks = 99542 > > Please mount tape 2 on /dev/rmt0 and press Return to continue ... > > <we mount the tape and press enter> > > Read/Write End Of Medium enabled: missing blocks, expect 99544, > > processed 99542. > > Physical restore failed - function buc_fe.c : Archive API processing > > failed at l > > ine 791 for msgtype failed code -1 errno 0 > > ---end error info > > > > I have determined that its not a bad tape set and the tapes are in the > > correct order. I have also tried another set of tapes just in case! > > Relevant onconfig settings: > > > > TAPEDEV /dev/rmt0 > > TAPEBLK 256 # Tape block size (Kbytes) > > TAPESIZE 0 # should use entire tape