From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 06:04:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874F916A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 06:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail.tiscali.de (relay1.tiscali.de [62.26.116.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE3D43D1F for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 06:04:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walter@pelissero.de) Received: from daemon.home.loc (62.246.25.132) by webmail.tiscali.de (6.7.019) id 400E95AD00896931 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:04:19 +0100 Received: from hyde.home.loc (hyde.home.loc [10.0.0.2]) by daemon.home.loc (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1FE3YjP000802 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:03:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wcp@hyde.home.loc) Received: from hyde.home.loc (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hyde.home.loc (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1FE3ajV002194 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:03:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wcp@hyde.home.loc) Received: (from wcp@localhost) by hyde.home.loc (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i1FE3axq002191; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:03:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wcp) From: "Walter C. Pelissero" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16431.31799.347116.878393@hyde.home.loc> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:03:35 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.16 under Emacs 21.3.50.1 X-Attribution: WP X-For-Spammers: blacklistme@pelissero.de Subject: tape error, but no tape X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: walter@pelissero.de List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:04:20 -0000 Today I've been trying to restore a filesystem with surprising results. The backup file was on a netwroked machine and not on a tape so I'd exclude any type of medium defect. Nevertheless, the restore program reported a "tape read error". Sounds really strange to me. Here is the session log: hyde# restore if /net/fish/usr/home/wcp/hyde-usr.dump restore > ls .: .snap/ crash/ include/ local/ sbin/ src.cvs@ X11R6/ db/ lib/ lost+found/ share/ sup@ bin/ games/ libdata/ mdec/ spool/ compat/ home/ libexec/ ports@ src@ restore > add bin restore > add lib restore > add libdata restore > add libexec sbin share restore > add include restore > add db restore > extract You have not read any tapes yet. If you are extracting just a few files, start with the last volume and work towards the first; restore can quickly skip tapes that have no further files to extract. Otherwise, begin with volume 1. Specify next volume #: 1 Tape read error while skipping over inode 114139 continue? [yn] y unknown tape header type 2054782334 abort? [yn] n not at beginning of a file abort? [yn] y dump core? [yn] n hyde# Nobody tripped on the network cable and there is no trace of errors in /var/log/messages. This is on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC, trying to restore a UFS1 snapshot (option -L) to a UFS2 filesystem. -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.de