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From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: keith@mail.telestream.com
Cc: Tremayne Smith <tmane333@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Restoring from tape
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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.
> 
> =================================
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> 
> 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
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