Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:46:10 -0700 From: "Meagan Jia Pi" <meagan@e-lingo.com> To: <keith@mail.telestream.com>, "Tremayne Smith" <tmane333@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Restoring from tape Message-ID: <009501c003d5$2eb6c060$e293c83f@elingo.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008111117020.32484-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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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. > > ================================= > 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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