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- From: koch@eis.cs.tu-bs.de (Andreas Koch)
- Subject: ** HELP **: Can't read backup tape!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.224434.9091@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>
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- Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,EIS,West Germany
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:44:34 GMT
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- (taking three deep breaths, calming down)
- I am confronted by the following problem:
-
- I made a backup DAT under A/UX 2.0.1 using Tony Cooper's
- st driver (generic) using a WangTEK 6130-HS DAT drive
- and the following command:
- dump.bsd -T4.2 0unbsf 64k 1300m / | tbb >/dev/rmt/nrst
-
- This backup must have worked, since I have restored various
- files using it.
-
- Now, I have installed A/UX 3.0 plus Jim Jagielski's tc driver,
- since it supports the WangTEK directly and st has again expired.
- But when I try to use the command (and various permutations thereof)
- restore -T4.2 ivbf 64k /dev/rmtc
- I get only the message
- no header after volume mark
- and the restore aborts. Can anyone help me to restore the backup
- or have I lost more than 500MB of data, accumulated over 4 years?
-
- I don't think that the WangTEK is broken, since testdrive works perfectly
- and backups created using A/UX 3.0 dump.bsd can be read using A/UX 3.0
- restore. However, A/UX 2.0.1 restore is unable to read the 2.0.1 backup
- under A/UX 3.0. What has happened? Are the tape formats written by
- st and tc incompatible? If so, where can I get a non-expired version of
- the generic st driver? Or do I have to play games with the system clock?
- _ANY_ hints are appreciated!
-
- Panicking,
- Andreas Koch
-