SUMMARY: rrestore hangs dumphost

From: klunder@rc.tudelft.nl
Date: Thu Sep 05 1991 - 11:45:29 CDT


Original posting:

> Hello sun managers,
>
> I have an exabyte 8200 in my 4/470 (survis) which I also use to
> backup my 4/330 (surver) both machines are running 4.1.1.
> (I do backups multi-user)
>
> on the 4/330, I issue a
>
> /etc/dump $1ucbdsf 126 6250 28633 cappelle@survis:/dev/nrst1 /
>
> This seems to work fine.
>
> When I try to restore something the following occurs:
>
> rrestore if cappelle@survis:/dev/nrst1 /
>
> Aug 30 09:44:28 survis vmunix: st1: tape synchronization lost
> Aug 30 09:44:28 survis vmunix: st1: file positioning error
> Aug 30 09:44:28 survis vmunix: panic: psig action
> Aug 30 09:44:28 survis vmunix: syncing file systems... [16] [15] [10] [6] done
>
>
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this behaviour ?
> Do I need extra flags to rrestore ?

The answer:

Almost everyone suggested to install the st-jumbo patch
(100280-02) and/or patch 100228-02.
The dump command could do without -c -d and rrestore
might need the -b option.

I installed 100228-2 and now it works fine.

Thanks to:

marquard@astrosun.TN.CORNELL.edu
hoop@khonshu.Colorado.edu
hanson@calvin.fnal.gov
tres@ncar.ucar.edu
phillips@athena.Qualcomm.com
miker@sbcoc.com
matt@wbst845e.xerox.com
aldrich@sunrise.Stanford.edu
fergus@capsogeti.fr
rick@cs.man.ac.uk
dave@cs.napier.ac.uk
pren@BBN.COM
dal@gcm.com
trdlnk!mike@relay.EU.net
xilinx!cray!esch@uunet.UU.NET

Hans
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