Why can't I get at least 10GB of data written to DDS4 tape using Sun DDS4 tape drive?

From: marcel.chukwunenye@ps.ge.com
Date: Tue Jan 06 2004 - 09:48:39 EST


Folks,
I have been trying to write about 10GB (total) of data to a DDS4 tape using
a Sun DDS4 tape drive with ufsdump command. After writing 6694KB - a total
of 5 partitions I get the following error on actually the last partition
being backed up. When I put this slice first the backup fails as well; but
succeeds doing the rest. I have tried several tapes with same result.

  DUMP: Estimated 5321616 blocks (2598.45MB).
  DUMP: Dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: Dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: write: I/O error
  DUMP: Write error 23028 feet into tape 1
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") DUMP:
The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

Command:
rsh $FSHOST /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0uf $TAPEHOST:/dev/rmt/0hbn /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0

FSHOST and TAPEHOST are same "CatDog"
OS is Solaris 8 02/02

CatDog:/var/adm/backups/# df -kFufs

/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s0 10323610 2596842 7623532 26% /runtime
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s0 8258597 2997769 5178243 37% /cots
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s1 2053605 1351075 640922 68% /xahome
/dev/dsk/c1t3d0s1 6193583 1119879 5011769 19% /xa
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s3 6193583 982711 5148937 17% /xa21
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s4 4129290 364544 3723454 9% /shadow

Marcel O. Chukwunenye
GE Network Reliability Services
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