On 6/29/16 1:48 PM, Anthony l wrote: > 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. > Sure, it's a fine place. Question below. > > 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 That doesn't seem to be an actual xfsdump error string, is it? Maybe you can capture and include the entire xfsdump output, or put it in a pastebin somewhere? By the time things get hand-transcribed it's easy to lose important bits. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
