On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 at 3:31pm, Madhvi Gokool wrote

> I have been testing how many filesystem full dumps of the servers on my
> network  could be stored on  a specific tape.
> An excerpt of the dump summary is as follows: -
>                                      DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
> HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> backup.terra hda1        1 FAILED ---------------------------------------
> backup.terra hda5        0 13389001338944   --    6:013712.0  10:172168.5
> backup.terra hda6        0   18160  18208   --    0:035387.0   0:111707.4
> backuprad.te ad0s1a      0   35220  35264   --    0:065669.3   0:221598.6
> backuprad.te ad0s1e      0     250    288   --    0:04  63.3   0:01 205.3
> backuprad.te ad0s1f      0    2960   3008   --    0:04 825.1   0:021263.6
> 
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
> 
>   backup.ter hda1 lev 1 FAILED [data timeout]

What type of system is this, and what backup program are you using?

> Upon verifying the contents of the tape after the backup was completed,
> backup.ter hda1  does not figure in the list of backup images.

As amanda told you.

> Is it possible to retry the failed filesystem backup and write it on the
> same tape ????

No.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University