From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 17 01:53:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA07702 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 01:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA07660 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 01:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.180]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:54:22 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00900; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:51:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199807162256.PAA21410@beaufort.sfu.ca> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:51:25 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Paul Wolstenholme Subject: RE: Filesystem recovery nightmare Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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