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- From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
- Subject: Re: Problems reading backup
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.161517.4070@selway.umt.edu>
- Organization: University of Montana
- References: <BxM3pB.64B@csd.cri.dk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:15:17 GMT
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- In article <BxM3pB.64B@csd.cri.dk> tnr@csd.cri.dk (Torben N. Rasmussen) writes:
- >I doesn't seem to be able to read my backup tapes i created with the followng
- >command:
- >
- >/etc/rdump -0 -d 6250 -s 33000 -cuf hyperion:/dev/rmt0.1 /home
- >
- >on a 2.3G 8mm tape drive defined as having variable length block size.
- >
- >I am trying to read it with this command:
- >
- >restore -tqv -s 1 -f/dev/rmt1.1
- >
- >and get this error message:
- >
- >Media error: can't read backup
- >
- >Does anybody have an idea of what is going wrong.
- >
- >I am able to read distribution tapes from IBM.
- I saw this same problem (3.2.2). I used rrestore (not restore) to
- restore the backup. Admittedly, this is a rather roundabout way of
- doing things when you're invoking the restore on the host with the
- tape drive. I don't think restore is actually "restore" in the
- rdump sense (it's a different format). I wasn't even able to use
- restore when I ran backup-by-inode. I still had to use rrestore.
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