Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:52:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: Tremayne Smith <tmane333@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Restoring from tape Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008111452001.16698-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008111117020.32484-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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I use pax, and 1 volume to a tape - Makes things easier at 3am beeper calls when you arent quite awake. On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > Just went through this myself. Here is the result and how I got it to > work. > > 1. On tape machine. > a. rewind all the way to beginning > b. Don't mt the tape to the proper file system !! > ie. don't mt the tape to the proper location. > 2. On restoring machine. > a. restore -i -s 3 -f my.tapemachine.com:/dev/nrsa0 > #replace 3 with file system you are wanting. > b. add <file> > c. verbose > d. extract > e. Specify next volume #: 1 > # No matter what I did here only entering 1 would work > Regardless of the file system I am on. > > ================================= > Keith W. > At the helm <for better or worse> > > My non work related site > www.cydonia.net > ================================= > > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Tremayne Smith wrote: > > > Has anyone encountered a problem where you get a > > "tape is not a dump tape" > > error when trying to restore from a tape device? > > When I try to extract my selected files I am told > > "that I have not read any tapes yet" > > Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. > > > > Tre > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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