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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Steve Ames <steve@vic.cioe.com>
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Subject: Re: help! restore problem
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On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Steve Ames wrote:

> 
> I've had a system up for 8 months or so that was running great. Recently its
> drive 0 went bad. I'm trying to restore the filesystem from backup but I'm
> getting an error message:
> 
> st0: block size wrong, 64 blocks residual
> tape read error: Input/output error
> 
> I've backed up and restored a couple of test filesystems and all went
> according to plan... I'm not sure what this error indicates or how to
> fix it... HELP!!!

What were the command line(s) you used to backup & restore?

Tape type information, other details would be helpful too.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major