Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 23:14:02 -0700 From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, lenny@icus.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restore on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 core dumps and ends prematurely Message-ID: <199509100614.XAA19868@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>I had the unfortunate disaster of two hard disk failures I also had a disk failure of my FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 drive somewhat recently. >Anyways -- I had to restore my filesystems from my DDS-2 4mm DAT (Sony) >drive. Some would go and restore lots of files and then say: >Specify next volume #: >Even though it all was "dump'd" to one tape and succeeded just fine. >Of course entering anything here would just not work... if I entered >the same volume number (1) it would SIGSEGV. >I found out the hard way that it didn't restore everything, and of course >left the filemodes of the directories wrong. I also see this. At first I thought it was because I was trying to restore a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 dump tape under FreeBSD-current as of August, but even after re-installing FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, the restore still fails in this same manner. So I've concluded that the tape itself was corrupt. However, if you also see this same behavior, it may be a software bug after all and my tape may still hold valid data. Another data point is that an old FreeBSD 1.1 dump tape restores fine under both FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and FreeBSD-current. >I could then restore >interactively (restore ivsf <saveset> /dev/rst0) and then say "add <fn>" >and extract.. It would then find that file, extract it and exit normally. This fails for me. I get a resync error message and the restore process appears to hang w/ the tape drive light always on. Jeffrey
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