Re: [Dump-users] Cannot find file dump list

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:16:03PM -0500, James Roth wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    I'm getting the following message when restoring.
> 
> $ restore -iv
> Verify tape and initialize maps
> Input is from a local tape
> Tape block size is 32
> Dump   date: Fri Dec  5 00:12:05 2003
> Dumped from: Tue Oct 28 15:21:11 2003
> Level 1 dump of /store on orca:/dev/md0
> Label: orca
> restore: Cannot find file dump list
> 
> The tape was created using a command like this:
> ssh orca dump -u -0 /store -f - | dd ibs=512 obs=512 of=/dev/tape conv=sync
> 
> DDS4 tape drive
> Linux x86 with a heavily upgraded Redhat 6.2 distro
> restore 0.4b34 (using libext2fs 1.34 of 25-Jul-2003)
> Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x26 (DDS-4 or QIC-4GB).
> 
> Is there a way to recover this?
> I tried...
> 
> 	dd bs=512 if=/dev/tape of=temp.bin
> 	restore -iv -f temp.bin

Try:
	restore -iv -f temp.bin -b 10

but I'm not sure it will help...

Are you sure the tape blocksize (as per mt setblk) hasn't changed 
between the dump and the restore ?

Stelian.
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