Are you sure you have the right blocking factor? Try omitting the -b and see if it works.
Jerry --- Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I'm looking for some help on my restore problem. > Everytime I > attempt to restore, I get an error that says "tape > is not a dump > tape". Here's a sample output: > > > chinook:/home/.restore# amrestore /dev/nst0 chinook > hda1 > amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date > 20021012 label DAILY09 > amrestore: 1: restoring chinook.hda1.20021012.1 > amrestore: 2: skipping zephyrus.sda1.20021012.1 > amrestore: 3: skipping axon.sda1.20021012.1 > amrestore: 4: skipping boreas.sda1.20021012.1 > amrestore: 5: skipping chinook.hda5.20021012.1 > amrestore: 6: skipping axon.sda3.20021012.1 > amrestore: 7: skipping zephyrus.sda3.20021012.1 > amrestore: 8: skipping boreas.sda3.20021012.1 > amrestore: 9: skipping axon.sda4.20021012.1 > amrestore: 10: skipping zephyrus.sda4.20021012.1 > amrestore: 11: skipping chinook.hda6.20021012.0 > amrestore: 12: skipping chinook.hda7.0021012.0 > amrestore: 13: skipping boreas.sda4.20021012.0 > amrestore: 14: reached end of tape: date 20021012 > > chinook:/home/.restore# restore -ivf > chinook.hda1.20021012.1 -b 512 > Verify tape and initialize maps > Input is from file/pipe > Input block size is 512 > Checksum error 21367431044, inode 0 file (null) > restore: Tape is not a dump tape > > chinook:/home/.restore# file chinook.hda1.20021012.1 > > chinook.hda1.20021012.1: new-fs dump file (little > endian), This dump Sat Oct 12 00:51:08 2002, > Previous dump Thu Oct 10 00:54:42 2002, Volume 1, > Level 788529152, type: tape header, Label nne, > Device dev/hda1, Host hinook.stanford.edu, > > > Is this dump corrupted or am I doing something > wrong? Incidentally, I > had the same problem when using amrestore -p and > piping the output to > restore and also when trying to use amrecover. > > I would really appreciate any help you can offer. > There are some > critical files on that backup that I need to > recover. > > Please cc me on any replies you send to the mailing > list. > > Thanks, > Max __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
