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Not able to kill my Tape Backup Session

Hi ,
I have a problem . I used tar -rvf /dev/st0 /BACKUP/export for my backup on to DLT Tape but it throwing an error which is pasted below.

[root dev]# tar -tvf /dev/st0
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot open: Device or resource busy
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I tried to kill the session but its not getting killed . Is there any command to make this process killed other than reboot the server . I did the following Process .

[root dev]# ps -ef|grep tar
oracle 1526 1 0 May20 ? 00:00:00 oidmon start
oracle 26341 1 0 16:56 ? 00:00:00 tar -rvf /dev/st0 /BACKUP/export
root 32408 31870 0 20:53 pts/2 00:00:00 grep tar
[root dev]# kill -9 26341
[root dev]# ps -ef|grep tar
oracle 1526 1 0 May20 ? 00:00:00 oidmon start
oracle 26341 1 0 16:56 ? 00:00:00 tar -rvf /dev/st0 /BACKUP/export
root 32412 31870 0 20:53 pts/2 00:00:00 grep tar

Your Inputs are highly appreciated .

Regards ,

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idmisk

please provide output of
ps auxw| grep tar

need to know in what state this process is

DonConsolio

probably process is in "waiting for I/O" status

try manually ejecting the tape, this often aborts the I/O and your process can terminate