[Dump-users] Problems with dump

[Page, J. T <Jon...@pn...>]

I am trying to get dump/restore working and am having limited success.

I have a Dell PE 2650 configured with a PERC 3/QC SCSI controller.  The
system is running RedHat Advanced Server 2.1 (kernel 2.4.9-e35).  The
system has a DLT7000 tape drive connected and has dump-0.4b25-1.72.0
installed. =20

The system sees the tape drive and it seems to respond to mt commands
such as rewind and fsf.  If I echo a label out the the tape (echo test >
/dev/nst0) the in-use light blinks, like it is doing something, but if I
cat out the tape label I get garbage.  I attempted a backup which seemed
to work, at least no errors.  But a subsequent restore generates the
following errors:

resync restore, skipped 15620 blocks
resync restore, skipped 15598 blocks
resync restore, skipped 22 blocks
Missing blocks at the end of <directory file - name unknown>, assuming
hole
resync restore, skipped 374 blocks
. is not on the tape
Root directory is not on tape
abort? [yn]

Any help would be appreciative.