Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:47:56 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Stephen Hilton" <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: reading SGI backup tapes on FreeBSD Message-ID: <01111220475600.01499@proxy.the-i-pa.com> In-Reply-To: <KPEMJADBBBFPDEDOIOMBOEOBDIAA.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> References: <KPEMJADBBBFPDEDOIOMBOEOBDIAA.nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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On Monday 12 November 2001 16:10, Stephen Hilton wrote: > Bill, > > > According to the SGI backup/restore program, cpio was used to make the > > backups. So I've tried cpio on FreeBSD with no success. Usually I get > > an "Input/Output" error. > > "bru" is used also on these system for backup, IIRC your error message > sound familiar to trying to read a SGI bru DAT tape on a FreeBSD system > with tar. Hmmm ... would be something to try, except I can't even use dd. I wanted to try using the options in dd to switch the byte-order, but dd won't even let me read the tape. (complains of "input/ouput error") At this point I'm guessing that the tape will only work on the DAT drive that wrote it, if at all. Maybe the thing was proprietary in some way, or so far out of alignment that the tapes are unreadable by anything else. Or maybe the tapes were just mishandled during storage and are no longer any good (they're three+ years old) -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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