On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:48:43 -0700, ebollengier wrote:


>> 
>> thanks, smartctl showd that drive needed cleaning. cleaned and fired up
>> bls - the first time it reported an read error. the second time not...
>> 
>> "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 15" didn't gave me an error message and also no
>> kernel error messages.
>> 
>> so maybe there is some hope left...
>> 
>> - Thomas
>> 
>> 
> After the mt command, you can try to read data with dd for example. You
> can also
> edit the BSR file to remove all files that are on the 14th file of your
> tape.
> 
> Just use "run bootstrap=/path/to/bootstrap" to rerun the restore without
> selecting anything.
> If you drive asks to be cleaned too often, contact your hardware support
> to change it.
> 
> Bye

finally the restore went OK. I will do some more testing with the drive...

Thanks for your help.

- Thomas



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