Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:51:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: Paul Wolstenholme <wolstena@sfu.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Filesystem recovery nightmare Message-ID: <XFMail.980717105125.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <199807162256.PAA21410@beaufort.sfu.ca>
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On 16-Jul-98 Paul Wolstenholme wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been having some SCSI problems on a new FreeBSD 2.2.6 box. Not > knowing exactly what the problme was I thought I would start from > scratch. The thought was that I had a good backup of my data. > > It know appears that my tape archive may be corrupt. The archive was > made via: > > tar cvfz /dev/nrst0 / > > However, when I try to restore (eg. tar xvfz /dev/nrst0 /etc) > > I get the following errors: > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > tar unxexpected EOF on archive file Hm ... hate to ask it but did you rewind the tape ? /dev/nrst0.2 Mode 2, No rewind on close (from "man 4 st") Have a look at "man 9 st" also. And don't forget "man mt" Malte. > > The SCSI error reported in the log is: > > Jul 16 14:46:34 alpha /kernel: st0(aic0:5:0): timed out > > > Is there any way I can get the data off this tape. I sure would like to > get the /etc directory and some of the stuff off /usr/local. Any > assistance would be much, much appreciat > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Date: 17-Jul-98 Time: 10:38:02 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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