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  LT05 Unarchive Tape Error

  Posted by Luke Allen on May 16, 2019 at 10:27 am

  Howdy folks, long time reader, first time poster! Be gentle!!!

  I have an LT05 tape that is causing me some issues and I was wondering if anyone here has any suggestions on how to fix?

  I’m unarching a tape, which runs fine, untill it gets to a single file, which causes the tape to error and quit. The tape has around 1.3 TB of data, but crashes out after restoring just

  Here is the last few lines of my logs

  …
  -rwxrwxrwx tech/domain users 42813440 2015-02-05 22:23:00 mnt/vol1/work/2014_Active/691_REDACTED_IDENTITY/_DELIVERY/MASTER/v002/691_RDI_15_4K/691_RDI_15_4K_00021.dpx
  -rwxrwxrwx tech/domain users 85651205 2015-02-05 22:23:00 mnt/vol1/work/2014_Active/691_REDACTED_IDENTITY/_DELIVERY/MASTER/v002/691_RDI_15_4K/691_RDI_15_4K_00021.exr
  -rwxrwxrwx tech/domain users 42813440 2015-02-05 22:23:03 mnt/vol1/work/2014_Active/691_REDACTED_IDENTITY/_DELIVERY/MASTER/v002/691_RDI_15_4K/691_RDI_15_4K_00022.dpx
  -rwxrwxrwx tech/domain users 85651205 2015-02-05 22:23:02 mnt/vol1/work/2014_Active/691_REDACTED_IDENTITY/_DELIVERY/MASTER/v002/691_RDI_15_4K/691_RDI_15_4K_00022.exr
  dd: reading `/dev/nst0′: Input/output error
  0+75720 records in
  0+75720 records out
  39699087360 bytes (40 GB) copied, 285.675 seconds, 139 MB/s
  tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
  tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

  I also have a script I usually use for archiving and unarchiving and it says

  usr/local/archive/tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot read: Input/output error
  /usr/local/archive/tar: Too many errors, quitting
  /usr/local/archive/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
  tar error 2

  Is it possible to skip problematic files on LTO? Is there a way of recovering the rest of the tape? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  Luke Allen replied 7 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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