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

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

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:06:21PM -0500, James Roth wrote:

> 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.

This really looks like your tapes are corrupt. Try cleaning your
drive head, reading in a different drive might help.

But if the issue is really the magnetic media, I'm afraid you won't
be able to restore them.

Just to be sure, take a new tape, do a dump on it and try to restore
(using the same parameters - dd et al - you were using before). If 
what goes wrong is in the setup, then you won't be able to restore it.
On the other hand, if you restore it just fine, then the problem
lies on the old medium...

Stelian.
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