Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 14:38:35 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restore time Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005271428510.12482-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <8gpdip$1sr2$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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My file systems are laid out like this Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 39647 22923 13553 63% / /dev/da0s1f 1459018 1117536 224761 83% /usr /dev/da0s1e 19815 3420 14810 19% /var /dev/da1s1e 34465125 673658 31034257 2% /home procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Say I'm trying to get /usr/games/worms from a previous dump, I do this on the machine with the tape. # mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rewind # mt -f /dev/nrsa0 fsf 1 Then this on the machie I need to restore to that was previously dumped. # restore -i -s 1 -f tape.mydomain.com:/dev/nrsa0 Connection to tape.mydomain.com established. restore > restore > cd games restore > add worms restore > extract You have not read any tapes yet. Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start with the last volume and work towards the first. Specify next volume #: 1 That is where is just sits there forever. With occasional movement on the drive. Seem normal? Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm <for better or worse> ================================= On 27 May 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > <keith@mail.telestream.com> wrote: > > > Why is it when I restore from tape, the tape seems to take forever to > > get the file off. Example > > Where on the tape is the file in question located? > > restore needs to read all of the backup archive up to that file > from the tape. Tapes tend to run for something like one or two > hours from end to end (larger capacity tapes are also faster so > this time stays rather constant). > > > For a simple little file it will take more then an hour. > > Not unreasonable. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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