Re: [Dump-users] restoring and error [(inode 32643) not found on tape]

[Israel G. <iga...@gm...>]

On 9/28/07, Stelian Pop <st...@po...> wrote:
> Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 =E0 07:40 -0500, Israel Garcia a =E9crit :
> > Hi, I have a box running CentOS 4.5 and an external hdd (100 GB)
> > connected in /dev/sda1.. I'm dumping all filesystems to files.dump to
> > the external hdd running this:
> >
> > dump -0 -a -f /mounted_exthdd/filesystem.dmp /
> > dump -0 -a -f /mounted_exthdd/filesystem.dmp /usr
> > dump -0 -a -f /mounted_exthdd/filesystem.dmp /var
> >
> > and so on..
>
> Are you aware that you're overwriting your backups at each invocation ?
>
Hi, Stelian... thanks for your soon reply.. yes, I know that.. I'm really
dumping all filesystems from Monday to Saturday..

> > So, When I'm gping to restore I run:
> >
> > restore -i -A /mounted_exthdd/filesystem.dmp to enter in interactive
> > mode but when I add/restore files I get this error:
> >
> > restore > extract
>
> -A is used to specify a special "table of contents" file. What you're
> probably searching for is:
>         restore -i -f /mounted_exthdd/filesystem.dmp
For example, Im trying to restore a file from  /boot filesystem...

[root@domain# /usr/local/sbin/restore -i -f /hdd/Fri/boot.dump
/usr/local/sbin/restore >
/usr/local/sbin/restore > what
Dump   date: Fri Sep 28 08:44:09 2007
Dumped from: the epoch
Level 0 dump of /boot on sentai-test.cimex.com.cu:/dev/hda1
Label: /boot1
/usr/local/sbin/restore > verbose
verbose mode on
/usr/local/sbin/restore > ls
.:
   2 ./                        17 initrd-2.6.9-55.EL.img
   2 ../                       11 lost+found/
  14 System.map-2.6.9-55.EL    12 message
  15 config-2.6.9-55.EL        13 message.ja
2009 grub/                     16 vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.EL

/usr/local/sbin/restore > add vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.EL
/usr/local/sbin/restore > extract
Extract requested files
You have not read any volumes yet.
Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start
with the last volume and work towards the first.
Specify next volume # (none if no more volumes): none
You have not read any volumes yet.
Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start
with the last volume and work towards the first.
Specify next volume # (none if no more volumes): none
./vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.EL: (inode 16) not found on tape

I'm getting the same error...

regards;
Israel
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> Stelian.
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> Stelian Pop <st...@po...>
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Regards;
Israel Garcia