Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:13:33 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: restore says "Changing volumes on pipe input?" -- why??!? Message-ID: <199810081813.LAA17414@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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Had a disk drive go flaky; got a replacement. Took flaky drive out; put replacement drive in. Had just completed a level 0 backup (dump, via amanda) of the filesystem. Tried using amrestore first, then, when I got the message mentioned in the Subject:, I copied the backup image onto a spare filesystem via dd, and did: dd if=backup_image bs=32k | sudo restore -xvf - and after the usual chatter about all the directories it's making, the files it's restoring, and the symlinks it's creating, restore then says the same thing I got from amrecover: extract file ./pub/unix/FreeBSD/3.0-19980919-BETA/catpages/CHECKSUM.MD5 Changing volumes on pipe input? abort? [yn] n Changing volumes on pipe input? abort? [yn] n Changing volumes on pipe input? abort? [yn] n Changing volumes on pipe input? abort? [yn] y dump core? [yn] y 73702+0 records in 73702+0 records out 2415067136 bytes transferred in 1270.722299 secs (1900547 bytes/sec) Abort I'm in the process of making another copy of the backup image, without the initial block (that amanda uses as a "header"), so I can just feed the resulting file to restore directly (without going through a pipe). The message is being issued inside a routine (within tape.c) where restore seems to want to switch volumes, but I haven't a clue as to why it might want to do that -- there was plenty of space on the tape (about 11.5 GB or so left out of 20 GB -- I've successfully written at least 10 GB). Any ideas as to what I can do to get the data back? Or how to prevent a recurrence of this? Thanks, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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