vdump/vrestore

From: Hornby, Russ Mr. <HORNBY_at_fsc.vafb.af.mil>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 96 15:01:00 PDT

Thanks for all the help

ron.barrett_at_cubic.com
rwa_at_cs.athabascau.ca
jshen_at_kidsat.ucsd.edu
fxjwk_at_aurora.alaska.edu

The question was

> 1) I'm running DU v3.2.c on a AXP 2100 and I'm using AdvFS. I can backup

> multiple file systems on one tape using vdump and the -N switch for no
> rewind (according to the log files this part seems to be working). My
> problem is trying to retrieve files from the second or subsequent file
> systems using vrestore. I realize "restore" has a -s switch that
apparently
> works, but of course "restore" only works with UFS and not AdvFS.


And the suggetions were (which work great)

Use mt to position the tape to the right file before running vrestore; if
you use vrestore -i (interactive), you should see for sure if you've
gotten it to the right file! For the second file:

mt -f /dev/nrmt0h fsf 1
vrestore -if /dev/nrmt0h


Thanks all
Received on Tue Apr 30 1996 - 00:24:42 NZST

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