Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:56:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" <amir@neuron.net> To: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) Cc: amir@neuron.net, jlwest@tseinc.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump/tape problems Message-ID: <199604241456.KAA16706@pipe4.nyc.pipeline.com> In-Reply-To: <v03006607ada39bf1e500@[193.174.4.22]> from "Lutz Albers" at Apr 24, 96 10:52:29 am
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> - I also found that I wasn;t able to do a restore after I dumped a > - filesystem (though I haven't yet tried it with this specific set of > - settings). I'm also not 100% sure I have the right DIP switch settings. > - Does anyone here know what they might be? > > What messages do you get while restoring ? Whats not working ? A few more > details might be nice :-) When I did the original restores I got the ever-informative error message: Input/output error As I mentioned in my original post, small tars worked fine (it had no problem untarring the actual FreeBSD installation) but when I trieds to untar a tarfile of the whole system (I had temporarily given up on dunp/restore and decided to just go with tar for the moment) I got the following errors: st0: 65536-byte record too big tar: read error on /dev/rst0: Input/output error Then I got two console messages, both reading as follows: /kernel: st0 65536-byte record too big I attempted to list the contents of the tape, using "tar -tvf /dev/rst0" and that worked fine. But I was still unable to untar the contents of the tape. I don;t now if this error has anything to do with the dump/restore problem or is linked to some sort of system file-size limit or something of the sort. The system tarfile was ~450 meg. -Amir
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