Summary: remote restore to system booted off 4.0D CD

From: Roger Spaulding <roger.spaulding_at_wcom.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:42:38 +0000

        Thank-yous are in order to alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com (don't
        have any other name), a lady whose response I managed to loose
        (sorry), and a persistant co-worker, Jim Bem.
 
        All three people nailed the answer.
 
        To refresh your memories, I was trying to restore / and
        /usr to a machine from a tape, but the machine in question
        did not have a tape drive.
 
        I booted off the 4.0D CD, configured the target computers LAN
        to where it could see the machine that had the tape drive,
        and was trying to restore / via the following command:
 
          rsh machine_with_drive "dd if=/dev/rmt0h bs=10k" | \
                vrestore -x -f - -o yes -v
 
        My mistake was in the block size specified to the dd
        portion of the command. A perusal of the vdump manpage
        listed the default blocksize to be 60k. Specifying this
        value to dd solved it all.

        Thanks to everyone, and apologizes to those whose e-mail
        I dropped and could not recognize any more specifically.

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