My appologies, I left out that there were no tape hardware errors on the
tape unit. I have ass-u-me'd that the hardware is OK.
On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Jason Neil wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have an alpha that uses tar for it's backup. We do a 'tar tv' to
> verify the backup. Over the last month we have been getting errors in
> the log. Below is an example of one of the errors. This error happened to
> be about one line, but the errors can be very large. Dump does not give
> any such errors.
>
> ...
> -rwxr-xr-x 284/15 1131 Mar 14 1994:47 1994 /d02/RCS_XRAY/INT99031.pc
> -rw-rw-r-- 299/15 1358 Jul 8 1994:11 1994 /d02/RCS_XRAY/10101
> -rwxrwxr-x 294/2000 14848 Jun 14 1994:21 1994 /d02/RCS_XRAY/WLS00065.rep
> -rw-rw-r-- 299/15 7081 Nov 15 1994:02 1994 /d02/RCS_XRAY/4974
> -rw-rw-r-- 284/15 1359 Jul 10 17:44:07 1995 /d02/RCS_XRAY/8255
> -rw-rw-r-- 282/15 1088 Jul 8 1994:24 1994 /d02/RCS_XRAY/20172
> -rwxr-xr-x 278/15 19755 Sep 16 1994:38 1994 /d02/RCS_XRAY/ADT09104.rex
> -rw-rw-r-- 287/15 23086tar: [offset 4m+614k+0]: I/O error
> tar: /d02/RCS_XRAY/SC0070.rex : File data is corrupt
> May 31 1995:53 1995 /d02/RCS_XRAY/cli.trc
> -rw-rw-r-- 283/15 4356 Oct 17 10:50:33 1995 /d02/RCS_XRAY/17194
> -rw-rw-r-- 283/15 1059 Sep 20 1994:18 1994 /d02/RCS_XRAY/4262
> -rwxr-xr-x 290/15 32989 Oct 11 1994:16 1994 /d02/RCS_XRAY/WLS00212.rex
> ...
>
> Any suggestions as to why this is happening will be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jase.
>
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