Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 00:10:20 -0500 From: "Jon E. Mitchiner" <jon@minotaur.com> To: "FreeBSD" <"freebsd-current@freebsd.org"> Subject: FW: Restore/Dump broken? Message-ID: <199803260511.VAA14782@hub.freebsd.org>
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I have a suspicion that 'restore' is broken somehow as I have a new tape drive in our web server machine (SONY SDT-7000) and backups work without any problems. The problem occurs when we try to restore files as we lost a file today, and bang, restore wouldn't work at all. Below is a list of the commands I did to test restore on a new clean tape to make sure it's not something else: www# dump -0u -a -f /dev/rst0 /usr/local DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Mar 25 18:52:22 1998 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd1s1e (/usr/local) to /dev/rst0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 84334 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 72.94% done, finished in 0:01 DUMP: DUMP: 84372 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s) DUMP: finished in 389 seconds, throughput 216 KBytes/sec DUMP: level 0 dump on Wed Mar 25 18:52:22 1998 DUMP: Closing /dev/rst0 DUMP: DUMP IS DONE www# mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind www# restore -f /dev/rst0 -i tape read error: No such file or directory www# So the last error confuses me. I thought perhaps there was something broken with the tape drive -- e.g. it not being able to read or something so I went with tar and was able to write and read back from the tape drive which leads me to determine 'restore' is not working, atleast not from the current sources dated around 3/5/98 I believe. Is there a known problem/workaround for this? Thanks! Jon ___________________________________________________________________________ Jon E. Mitchiner - jon@minotaur.com Minotaur Technologies, LLC - http://www.minotaur.com - (703) 560-0683 (FAX) Digital Alpha 164SX systems for sale! 533 MHz CPU with motherboard $795. $869 in case. http://www.minotaur.net/cgi-bin/Pricing.cgi?sub=Alpha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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