NSR backups - work but fail?

From: Ray <ray_at_thunder.ocis.temple.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:43:27 -0400 (EDT)

Hello all.

We recently got our NSR software and license to use our 10 tape stacker from
DEC. The drive is a Cybernetics 8mm extabyte 10e which works just fine with
the Unix standard dump and restore (and vdump and vrestore) but has problems
with NSR.

The NSR software gives a SUCCESSFUL DUMP message, but any attempt to restore
from the tapes created fails, with an error about reading a record on the
tape.

Question: Has anyone been successful in restoring from the NSR software?
(2nd question: is anyone using it but never TRIED to restore :( ). Our 8mm
tape drive has been working fine, but the software support folks say that
they recommend 4mm or DLT. I've never had a problem with dump and vdump,
so I don't know if I believe this recommendation.

Any info from other NSR sites appreciated.

The general success message looks like the following:

NetWorker savegroup: (notice) Default completed, 1 client (All Succeeded)
Start time: Thu Jun 6 03:00:02 1996
End time: Thu Jun 6 03:43:48 1996

The error messages comes up during the restore as
Recovering 1 file into its original location
Total estimated disk space needed for recover is 6 KB.

Volumes needed (all on-line):
        thunder.005 at StackBoy
Requesting 1 file, this may take a while...
Error encountered on the following files by NSR server `thunder': can not
read record 5028 of file 22 on 8mm 5GB tape thunder.005
        ./fbkenpo.msg _at_ Sun Jun 2 03:00:10 1996
Received 0 files from NSR server `thunder'
Recover errors with 1 file
Recover completion time: Wed Jun 05 09:43:41 1996


Thanks
Ray


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Ray Lauff : ray_at_thunder.ocis.temple.edu : (215) 204-5678 : Temple University
Received on Mon Jun 10 1996 - 21:07:29 NZST

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