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From: "Meagan Jia Pi" <meagan@e-lingo.com>
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	"Tremayne Smith" <tmane333@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Restoring from tape
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:46:10 -0700
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> 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.

When I restore file from tapes, I always use wind the tape to the
begining of the right file system, then I run:

restore -if /dev/rsa0

and then just add and extract the files I need.

So I don't understand why did you say don't mt the tape to the proper
location.
I think whay went wrong when you first tried was that your tape was not at
the beginning
of any files in the tape.

Thanks!
Meagan

> 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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