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Hello Anthony here, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to send a question, If I am wrong I would appreciate if you could send me in the right direction. I have come across the oss.sgi forums a lot looking for a solution to my problem but I could not find much.
Here's my situation. I have a bunch a tapes that were created way back when using an IRIX system. Some kind of version 6, perhaps even the latest version. anyway I am able to peak at the headers to determind the the file type on the drive is indeed: xFSdump0.... or when I make a sample using 'dd if=/dev/nst0 of=./test.img' '+ 'file test.img' I get XFSDUMP archive (version 2) So, instinctively to get the data off the tapes I would think would be as simple as: sudo xfsrestore -f /dev/nst0 ./path to where I want it stored Then I get: using dump format 3 xfsrestore: searching media for dump xfsrestore: preparing drive xfsrestore: examining media file 1 ... xfsrestore examining media file xx the following dump has been found on drive 0: hostname: isp---------(stuff) mount point: /isp-iga volume: /dev/rdsk/sks0d2s7 session time: Mon Jan 10 11:47:42 2005 media label: "backup" file system id: xxx.... session id: xxx... media id:... restore this dump? 1: skip 2: restore (default) > 2 (enter)
====== examining media file 0 reading directories examining media file 1 reading directories ... and so on no files selected for restoral
==== 1: media change declined (timeout 3600 seconds) 2: display media inventory status 3: list needed media objects 4: change media (default)
3 and 4 do nothing I get no media needed. and If I press 4 same menu comes back. 2: media file xxx (xxx) where xxx is a number used for directory restoral first extent contained: ino xxxxxxxxxxxx off 0 next extent to restore: ino (same as above) off 0
and If I click 1: restoral interrupted use -R restore summery: stream 0: /dev/nst0 quit media no longer usable restore status: QUIT
Then if I got to the directory where I pointed all I have is: orphanage/ xfsrestorehelperblahblah/ where orphangae is empty and the other contains like 5 files that are just something else. What am I doing wrong here ?? any help would be great. Thanks
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