On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 06:48:29PM +0000, 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. > > > 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) dump 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 Oops, wrong format version. > What am I doing wrong here ?? any help would be great. Try telling restore to use dump format version 2 by using the -K option. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
