Very Computer

Hi,

        I have been having trouble running full backups for a
particular system, and am wondering if anyone out there knows
what might be causing the trouble; I'm at a loss for an explaination.

        The problem has, in the past, always occurred while backing up
the /usr/local filesystem, but recently occured while backing up another
filesystem also.  I had thought that perhaps the problem was isolated to
/usr/local, but...so much for that theory.

This is the message that shows up in the logs:

        backup: The lseek call failed.
        backup: Cannot read /dev/rfslv05 [block 1797989192]: count=4096, got=-1

This message is repeated numerous times, and with different values for
"[block ###########]" and "count=####".

Any insight into this troubling situation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

        Chris

I'm afraid it looks as if you've a knackered disk. We had this problem - dumps
(usually level 0) would fail with lseek errors. When we used fsck no errors
were reported but the dumps still kept on failing. We even went as far as using
newfs and then restoring off scratch dumps but to no avail. Eventually the
whole disk died and we had to replace it. Since then we've had no problems.

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