i don't know if it HAS to be considered normal, but that's what i used to get when using tob+afio to do backups. usually a different tape fixed the problems so i guess afio keeps on writing even after errors, and get tons of other errors.
Marco Frattola (Pianificazione processi) - Cubecom S.p.A. Via de Marini,1 3 piano Torre WTC 16149 GENOVA tel. 010 6591184 > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: Barry Samuels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: martedì 26 settembre 2000 15.49 > A: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Oggetto: Any knowledgeable Afio people out there? > > > After Afio has created an archive it produces a message similar > to: > > 'afio: Final count: 7m+12k+0 bytes written' > > Is the size given the size of the files before they were archived > or is it the size of the compressed archive? > > My next query is not produced by Afio but by the SCSI Tape module > when Afio was running. > > I use Afio in my backup script and the last backupo failed > because, I think, the tape was faulty. I have since re-run the > backup successfully with a different tape. > > However during the failed backup the following messages were > added to /var/log/messages: > > Sep 26 09:07:55 DATAMAN1 kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info > fld=0x3fff, Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error > Sep 26 09:07:55 DATAMAN1 kernel: Additional sense indicates > Medium format corrupted > > This in itself is not surprising but there were about 20,000 > similar lines. Could that be considered normal under the > circumstances? > > Barry Samuels > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
