Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Christian Parpart <cparpart@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] backup and crontab problem
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:27:36
Message-Id: 200409211427.28856.cparpart@surakware.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] backup and crontab problem by "Frank Nørvig"
1 On Tuesday 21 September 2004 9:39 am, Frank Nørvig wrote:
2 > BUT when I put the script into my cronjob for automatic start in the
3 > night, it fails with following error:
4 >
5 > [2004-09-21 05:43:58] Loading tape...
6 > [2004-09-21 05:43:58] Rewinding tape...
7 > [2004-09-21 05:44:58] Backing up data...
8 > [2004-09-21 05:46:59] tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot open: Input/output error
9 > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
10
11 try debugging a bit around. `whoami`, `id`, or even, try the reverse way, that
12 is, try to copy content of nst0 into /tmp/test.img or so. let's see what
13 happens then. Also, I guess, "Input/output error" is a bit _too_ undefined
14 reason, maybe your syslog tells more?
15
16 Greetings,
17 Christian Parpart.
18
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