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

[James R. <ja...@kr...>]

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
>>>   
>>
More clues.  Looking at a different partition from the same machine 
yields a different error:

restore -iv
Verify tape and initialize maps
Input is from a local tape
Tape block size is 32
Dump   date: Thu Dec  4 00:09:52 2003
Dumped from: Tue Oct 28 15:15:21 2003
Level 1 dump of / on orca:/dev/sda6
Label: orca
Extract directories from tape
Checksum error 14534106460, inode 48294 file <directory file - name unknown>
Mangled directory: reclen not multiple of 4
resync restore, skipped 101 blocks
Initialize symbol table.
restore >

Maybe this old 6.2 redhat box has some libc issues.  Kernel 2.4.18 looks 
like GLIBC_2.1.3.  Restoring from a newer machine does not help.

Thanks,
James