Dear alpha collegues,
this is a summary of a question I posted on 9 Oct 1998.
I noted that on any of my machines (AS4100 & AS1000 both running 4.0d
3rd patch), on any tape unit, on any controller I could'nt succesfully
vrestore a multitape vbackup.
After many and many tests, calls to DEC and so on, yesterday I finally
discovered what is wrong with vrestore. It is vrestore itself !
Infact under any shell (sh, csh, tcsh) if the variable LANG is set to
en_US.ISO8859-1 then the vrestore prints wrong messages. I only tried
with the above value of LANG becouse it is the value I work with.
I did'nt test further since now I am really fed up with vrestore (you
can image, can't you?).
I only know that the error happens reguardless of the setting of the LC_CTYPE variable.
# echo $shell
/bin/csh
#echo $LANG
LANG: Undefined variable.
# echo $LC_CTYPE
C
# /sbin/mt -f /dev/nrmt1h rew ; /sbin/mt -f /dev/nrmt1h fsf 3 ; /sbin/vrestore -xf /dev/nrmt1h
vrestore: Date of the vdump save-set: Mon Apr 19 14:12:37 1999
vrestore: Change Tapes: Mount tape# 0002
vrestore: Press RETURN when tape is mounted...
vrestore: Do you want to abort the restore? (yes or no) yes
####### now I place back the tape into the driver
####### and set the LANG environment variable
# setenv LANG en_US.ISO8859-1
# /sbin/mt -f /dev/nrmt1h rew ; /sbin/mt -f /dev/nrmt1h fsf 3 ; /sbin/vrestore -xf /dev/nrmt1h
vrestore: Date of the vdump save-set: Mon Apr 19 14:12:37 1999
Exit the interactive shell without restoring any files.
unknown command
vrestore: Do you want to abort the restore? (yes or no) yes
As you can see in the 2nd case (LANG variable set) the messages written
by vrestore is wrong. I think it is only a matter of writing
wrong messages since if I place the 2nd tape and I press RETURN the
vrestore completes its job succesfully (but I can't anymore trust the
restored data).
I guess DEC (Digitally Enhanced Compaq) should make a patch of vrestore
and I would really like to get it when it will be available.
Long life to the list,
Greetings from Italy,
Emanuele
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Emanuele Lombardi
mail: AMB-GEM-CLIM ENEA Casaccia
I-00060 S.M. di Galeria (RM) ITALY
mailto:lele_at_mantegna.casaccia.enea.it
tel +39 06 30483366 fax +39 06 30483591
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