I have an Ultra10 running Solaris 8. When I try to run ufsdump on the / slice
(dumping to a DAT drive) ufsdump reports an error and quits. It's happened
three times out of three attempts on two different tapes (same drive). I'm not
sure that the error messages were identical in detail for all three attempts.
BTW, this slice that's being backed up reports as 94% full.

Here, paraphrased, is one of the error messages:
-------------- Begin -----------------------------
Warning: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0 (dad0):
Unrecoverable data error: Block f054a0

Warning: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0 (dad0);
disk not responding to selection

Dump: SIGBUS() ABORTING!
dad0: disk okay

Warning: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0 (dad0):
Unrecoverable data error: Block f054a0

Warning: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0 (dad0);
disk not responding to selection

dad0: disk okay

Dump: Error reading command pipe: Error 0
Dump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted
------------------- End ------------------------------

My questions:

Am I correct that this is a problem with the disk slice (and not the tape)?

Is there a way to connect the errant block with a filename?

Is there a way to make ufsdump "skip and continue" or is there another
backup/dump utility that can continue past errors?

Any help would be appreciated.
eric

Eric ha scritto:
> Am I correct that this is a problem with the disk slice (and not the tape)?
>

Yes, you can redirect your backup into a file

ufsdump -0f /path/filename.dump /dev/dsk/......

If it work you can see if the problem is the tape

> Is there a way to connect the errant block with a filename?

What?

> Is there a way to make ufsdump "skip and continue" or is there another
> backup/dump utility that can continue past errors?

Backup can't continue with this type of errors

Bye