From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 7:33:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ben.profero.com (ben.profero.com [212.36.157.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9542337B5A2 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 07:33:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darren@profero.com) Received: from vindaloo (host169.profero.com [212.36.157.169] (may be forged)) by ben.profero.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA12675 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 15:30:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from darren@profero.com) Reply-To: From: "Darren Evans" To: Subject: restore problem with FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE and a C5683A DDS-4 DAT drive Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:33:22 +0100 Message-ID: <001a01bfbc1f$06461ed0$a99d24d4@vindaloo.profero.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is my dump command, dump -0ua -f /dev/nrsa0 / This is the restore command. I'm using a fresh tape. What am I doing wrong? I've not dumped onto any other tapes. I presume it's some kind of tape head reading position thing but I cannot move any further solving this. root@host /tmp# mt rewind root@host /tmp# restore -i -v -f /dev/nrsa0 Verify tape and initialize maps Tape block size is 32 Dump date: Fri May 12 11:20:01 2000 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of / on host.profero.com:/dev/da0s1a Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. restore > cd usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1 restore > add amanda.conf warning: ./usr: File exists warning: ./usr/local: File exists warning: ./usr/local/etc: File exists warning: ./usr/local/etc/amanda: File exists warning: ./usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1: File exists restore > extract Extract requested files You have not read any tapes yet. Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start with the last volume and work towards the first. Specify next volume #: many thanks -- Darren Evans Tel: +44(0)20 7700 9960 Systems, Profero Ltd Fax: +44(0)20 7700 9961 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message