VDUMP AND DUMP COMMANDS - CANNOT RESTORE FILESYSTEM

From: Jane Caldwell-Myers <Jane_at_nickel.laurentian.ca>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:20:12 -0500

Hello managers,

I have a problem with dumping and restoring a filesystem.

I seem to be having sporatic results with the vdump and vrestore
commands. I run the command

vdump -0uf /dev/ntape/tape0_d1 /
vdump -0uf /dev/ntape/tape0_d1 /usr
vdump -0uf /dev/ntape/tape0_d1 -b 64 /u

to back up filesystems on our ES40 running TRU64 UNIX version 5.1A.
The backup seems to be succesful but when I try to do a vrestore I get
the following error:

vrestore: unable to use save-set; invalid or corrupt format

*******PROGRAM ABORT****
vrestore: can't obtain fileset attributes.

I saw some information pertaining to this in a patch load - OSF520-034
- stating that vdump and vrestore have problems on version 5.1A.

I need to get a valid backup - so I attempted use the dump command:

dump -0uf /dev/ntape/tape0_d1 /u

The command seemed to be successful but when I issue the command

# restore -if /dev/ntape/tape1_d0
I get the following error
                            
Cannot calloc space for symbol table, errno = 12

I tried to verify the tape.

# restore -f /dev/ntape/tape1_d0 -t
        
Dump date: Fri Feb 20 05:15:00 2004 EST
        
Dumped from: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 EST
        
Level 0 dump of /u on sirsi:/dev/disk/dsk0h
        
Label: No label
        
no header after volume mark!
        
abort? [yn] n
        
resync restore, skipped 2 blocks
        
Cannot find file removal list

My fstab is as follows:
 more /etc/fstab
       
/dev/disk/dsk0a / ufs rw 1 1
        
/proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
        
/dev/disk/dsk0g /usr ufs rw 1 2
        
/dev/disk/dsk0h /u ufs rw 1 3
                
I am extremely concerned since I cannot seem to get a valid backup.
Any advice is desperatly needed.
Thanks
Jane

Thanks
Jane

Jane Caldwell-Myers
Laurentian University
705 675-1151 Ext. 2150
jane_at_laurentian.ca
Received on Fri Feb 20 2004 - 13:23:14 NZDT

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