Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:54:43 +0930 From: Ian Moore <ian.moore@hamcoll.sa.edu.au> To: Questions Free BSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Getting session details from a dump tape Message-ID: <42E9936B.5010805@hamcoll.sa.edu.au>
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Hi, I've done a level 0 dump of a server which is spanned over several tapes. Somehow, when I was labelling the tapes, I did something wrong and have an extra tape in there. I'm wondering if there is some way to find out what is on the tapes? I know I could do an ls to look at the files, but that won't really tell me what dump level it was and when it was dumped. Things I've tried: 1. On the first tape, I can just run #restore -i #what and that gives me the info I need for that tape, however, when I do the same for the next tape, it just says it's not the first tape of the set. 2. Try to read from /dev/sa0 directly: #head /dev/sa0 That didn't give any output, except in the log file, where is says: 10240-byte tape record bigger than supplied buffer. Cheers, -- Ian
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