dear Krishna, Thanks for your quick reply.. can tar be used to backup files on a machine with remote tape drive..?? appreciate your help regards simon Krishnaprasad_K@xxxxxxxx wrote: Hi, Have you tried taking backup using tar utility instead of rdump. If you take backup and try restore using tar, you may face issues. So try to take backup and restore using tar utility. tar -zcvf /dev/rmt/0hbn will do backup and tar -zxvf /dev/rmt/0hbn will do a retrieve operation. Also you can verify the content of tape after backup using tar -tzf /dev/rmt/0hbn - it will list the contents of tape. Note :- Make sure that you have rewinded the tape before trying to restore. There are other utilities available for tape backup for eg/- cpio Regards, Krishnaprasad -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sylvan dacounha Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 3:47 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: problem with restore 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --------------------------------- Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
