From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 15: 8:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from markl.com (markl.com [209.69.36.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B677A37B511 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:08:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Received: from localhost (squirrel@localhost) by markl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA34375 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:09:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:09:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Damon Hammis X-Sender: squirrel@markl.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why can't I restore? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm completely frustrated and lost at this point. For some reason or another I can't restore a filesystem from a tape. I can dump to the tape. I can tar and untar from a tape, but I can't restore from a tape at all. I've tried this with different tapes, different drives, and different SCSI cards. I have used two different HP Surestore DDS-2 drives and two Adaptec 1540 SCSI adapters. This worked find when I was running 4.0-STABLE, which is where the important tape was made. Since I've upgraded to 4.1-RELEASE I can't restore at all. Like I said, tar to and from the tape works, and dump works. However, restore does not. Normally I run dump -0uaf /dev/nrsa0 /usr. Then, mt rew. Followed by a restore -if /dev/nrsa0 This gives the code Tape read error: Input/Output error After one or two tries the tape is frozen and I have to do a mt offline to get the drive to respond again. The really odd thing is that I can read the tape with my friend's Linux box and identical drive and card no problem with restore. Will upgrading to 4.1-STABLE work or maybe downgrading to 4.0-STABLE? Your help is appreciated. --Damon _ _ |__/| .~ ~. /o=o'`./ .' {o__, \ { / . . ) \ `-` '-' \ } .( _( )_.' '---.~_ _ _| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message