From: managers account (managers@2100-1.mcb.net)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 10:59:02 EST
Thanks for the wealth of replies that were all helpful.
The dd command extracted the file from the tape but.........
After I managed to extract the file from the dat I believed it was corrupt
as the software image would load from the load host to the decserver but
the software would not initialize. After speaking to a very helpful guy at
compaq/dec/hp?? he sent me the software versions wweng1 and 2 via e-mail
but the problem still persisted. A factory reset of the dec server cured
this problem and we now have two of them up and running.
Thanks in no particular order to :-
Christoph
George
Rich
Andre
Selden
Oisin
And a huge thank you to the guy at dec.
The files are now backed up on Dat with FULL INSTRUCTIONS enclosed on how
to extract them!!
Thanks.
Nick
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, managers account wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have what we believe to be a software image for a Decserver700 on a dat
> tape. We usually use vrestore and vdump respectively for restore and
> backup purposes. In this instance vrestore won't read the file after the
> dat drive has been mounted and an ls -l of /dev/rmt0h shows :-
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root system 9,5122 Nov 16 2000 /dev/rmt0h
>
> I have tried cp /dev/rmt0h* . and a file is copied approximately 1.2
> MBytes in size to the specified directory but it does not appear to have
> the filename I would have thought it should be, also on uploading it to
> the Decserver700 does not appear to work.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can read and extract this file would be welcomed.
>
> Thank you
>
> Nick Teare
>
>
>
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