>On Mon, 30 May 2005, [ISO-8859-15] G_tz Reinicke wrote: > >> I have some backupscripts, which save the backup onto an NFS-mounted share. >> From time to time, the backup quits with an error: >> >> /bin/tar: /export/servers/home/home-Sun.tar: Cannot open: Input/output error >> /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now >> >> How can I get more info on why the backup failes? >> >> Any ideas? > >Do your system logs give any hint about NFS problems? Perhaps you lost >connectivity to the NFS server, or something else mucked up. Is it an input error, or is it an output error. What happens if you try to backup to /dev/null (-f /dev/null) Cheers, Terry. > >Regards, > >.lzs >-- >http://zitseng.com/ >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list