1.5.10-3 + mt 2.3 scsi tape problems

Pim Zandbergen P.Zandbergen@macroscoop.nl
Tue Aug 17 16:20:00 GMT 2004


I'm using a cygwin script as a wrapper around ntbackup on a number
of servers, running windows 2000 and 2003 server.

Basically, the script does

mt -f /dev/st0 status
dd if=labelfile of=/dev/st0
ntbackup  [ lots of options ]
mt -f /dev/st0 offline

After doing cygwin updates, backups started failing.
mt and/or dd would hang, ntbackup wouldn't detect the tape drive

This usually happened the second day. One day everything would
work, the next day, the backup would hang. Rebooting would be
the only way to get a good backup the next day. On one server,
a cold reboot was always necessary to release the tape.

Reverting back to cygwin 1.5.9 and mt 2.1 resolved my problems.

Pim


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