From: Jane Caldwell-Myers (Jane@nickel.laurentian.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 08:20:12 EST
Hello managers,
I have a problem with dumping and restoring a filesystem.
I seem to be having sporatic results with the vdump and vrestore
commands. I run the command
vdump -0uf /dev/ntape/tape0_d1 /
vdump -0uf /dev/ntape/tape0_d1 /usr
vdump -0uf /dev/ntape/tape0_d1 -b 64 /u
to back up filesystems on our ES40 running TRU64 UNIX version 5.1A.
The backup seems to be succesful but when I try to do a vrestore I get
the following error:
vrestore: unable to use save-set; invalid or corrupt format
*******PROGRAM ABORT****
vrestore: can't obtain fileset attributes.
I saw some information pertaining to this in a patch load - OSF520-034
- stating that vdump and vrestore have problems on version 5.1A.
I need to get a valid backup - so I attempted use the dump command:
dump -0uf /dev/ntape/tape0_d1 /u
The command seemed to be successful but when I issue the command
# restore -if /dev/ntape/tape1_d0
I get the following error
Cannot calloc space for symbol table, errno = 12
I tried to verify the tape.
# restore -f /dev/ntape/tape1_d0 -t
Dump date: Fri Feb 20 05:15:00 2004 EST
Dumped from: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 EST
Level 0 dump of /u on sirsi:/dev/disk/dsk0h
Label: No label
no header after volume mark!
abort? [yn] n
resync restore, skipped 2 blocks
Cannot find file removal list
My fstab is as follows:
more /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/dsk0a / ufs rw 1 1
/proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
/dev/disk/dsk0g /usr ufs rw 1 2
/dev/disk/dsk0h /u ufs rw 1 3
I am extremely concerned since I cannot seem to get a valid backup.
Any advice is desperatly needed.
Thanks
Jane
Thanks
Jane
Jane Caldwell-Myers
Laurentian University
705 675-1151 Ext. 2150
jane@laurentian.ca
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