On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:56:38AM -0400, Gabriel Picu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting the following errors after every backup:
> 
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:


I think this falls into the "strange" and informational
message category rather than "failure" category.


>  zeus       /disk2/exports lev 0 FAILED ["data write: Connection
> reset by peer"]
>  zeus       /disk2/exports lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape failed]

OK, trying to write that DLE to tape something went wrong.


>  taper: tape DAILY_MON_002 kb 142860896 fm 8 writing file: No space
> left on device

It successfully wrote 8 DLE's (fm 8 == 8 FileMarks) taking
a total of 142.8GB (kb 142...) of the tape.  During the writing
of the 9th DLE, it hit the end of the tape (no space).

You said you are using SDLT tapes, what 160GB?  160 capacity
minus 143 already filled is 17GB left.  Probably the ninth DLE
was over 17GB.

>  taper: retrying zeus:/disk2/exports.0 on new tape: [writing file: No
> space left on device]

So, taper is going to try this again on a different tape.
Had to because there was no space on the old one.

>  taper: tape DAILY_MON_001 kb 84118496 fm 1 [OK]

Now taper says on tape 001, things went OK.  There was only
one DLE (fm 1) written and it took 84.1GB (kb 84...).  That
is definitely bigger than 17.

> It looks like it spits out the error message once it gets
> to the end of the first tape..but just wondering if it can
> be caused by any other issue.
> 

Certainly could have been, but doesn't look like it to me.
What did the rest of your report have to say, did it show
all your DLE"s being successfully dumped and taped?

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