xfsrestore: tape op: reading 245760 bytes xfsrestore: tape op read of 245760 bytes short: nread == 4096 I think this is the crux -- regardless of the record size xfsrestore expects, it only ever gets the first 4k block. This is probably a limitation of the tape drive or the driver. I'd try: # mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0 # xfsrestore -m -b 245760 -v5 -f /dev/nst0 . -- Roger On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 18:23 +0000, Anthony l wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions again. > > Still banging my head against a wall. > > So I was trying a bunch of xfsrestore commands anything from -m -k -b > to all three but still the same result every time. > > xfsrestore -K -m -b 4096 -f /dev/nst0 ./ > > xfsrestore -K -r -f /dev/nst0 ./ > > > I don't think this is a corrupt tape or anything because I have around > 7 -10 tapes that are all made on the irix machine, but all behave the > same. I have tried tar before but I get this is not a tar file or gzip > file something like that. > > But I do have an observation. I had a tape (not made on the irix > system) and I was able to pull a direct transfer of files with the dd > command. i.e dd if=/dev/nst0 of=./somefile1 ibs =64k > > And I would only have to do this 3 -4 times to get like 30+ GBs of > data off the tapes and a simple tar xvf command extracted these files > just fine. But my question is how come when I try to do these with the > tapes made on the Irix machine I only get about 200 mb at a time and > there are like 190+ files on each tape. Is this normal for an xfs file > system on a tape drive? > > > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
