Dear ALL; I am using REDHAT 9 server and doin a back up on remote tape but the restore gives prblem let me expalin I have a redhad 9 server and my tape drive is on a SUN Solaris server. iam backing up the redhat 9 server on the tape drive attached to the SUN machine thats doin a remote backup the tape is dds3 type. i use the command from the linux machine to backup on tape attached to SUn server rdump 0f xx.xx.xx.02:/dev/rmt/0hbn / and it backs up succesfully witout any errors but i want to restore now so from the linux machine i use the command restore -if xx.xx.xx.02:/dev/rmt/0hbn but it gives me a error message Connection to xx.xx.xx.02 established. ----- where xx.xx.xx.02is the SUN server IP restore: Tape is not a dump tape if i use tar command tar -tvf xx.xx.xx.02:/dev/rmt/0hbn it says tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors now if i go to the SUN sparc machine and run tar command tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0hbn it says tar: directory checksum error if i run ufsrestore ufsrestore -ivh /dev/rmt/0hbn its says Verify volume and initialize maps Media block size is 20 Volume is not in dump format how can i test my restore .. or which command can i run with swiches for a sucessful restore also how can i list the contents of tape thanks and Regards simon --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
