When we upgraded our 8400 to 4.0, we put the wrong firmware on the
system [the 3.6 disk, it needs the 3.5 disk]. The result was it would
crash about every 10 hours, more frequently if the tz877 was in use.
Many of the crashes occurred during backups and restores. One in
particular seems to have corrupted something. It was in the middle of
restoring one user's data [of ~50G of data, only this one user got
corrupted]. Since then, I cannot restore the user's data. Recover
insists that "some tapes had error" [the restore spans 3 tapes] and
actually trying to restore has recover insist that it can't restore any
of the files.
I ran scanner on the last of the backups done before the upgrade, using
"-c servername -i -s ssid". Now it claims it can't get volume info for
the files, and the recover itself complained about an ssid from 3 weeks
before the backup I'm trying to use.
Right now I'm running the scanner on an earlier tape, but this is
probably going to miss some data the user is gonna want.
Is there anything else I can do to get this data back?
Thanks!
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Esther Filderman moose+_at_cmu.edu
System Mangler Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Member of the NonSequitur society. Our motto:
"We don't have regular meetings, but isn't blue a nice color?"
Received on Thu Aug 29 1996 - 20:48:14 NZST