From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Anthony l <Martinezant2141@live.com>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Question: Old Irix tape backup. Recovery on Linux (xfsdump/xfsrestore)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:17:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160629221749.GP12670@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN1PR05MB231785E5196A5D31D0D833EACC230@SN1PR05MB2317.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 06:48:29PM +0000, Anthony l wrote:
> Hello Anthony here,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the correct place to send a question, If I am wrong I would appreciate if you could send me in the right direction. I have come across the oss.sgi forums a lot looking for a solution to my problem but I could not find much.
>
>
> Here's my situation.
>
> I have a bunch a tapes that were created way back when using an IRIX system. Some kind of version 6, perhaps even the latest version. anyway I am able to peak at the headers to determind the the file type on the drive is indeed:
>
> xFSdump0.... or when I make a sample using 'dd if=/dev/nst0 of=./test.img' '+ 'file test.img' I get XFSDUMP archive (version 2)
dump version 2....
> So, instinctively to get the data off the tapes I would think would be as simple as:
>
> sudo xfsrestore -f /dev/nst0 ./path to where I want it stored
>
> Then I get:
>
> using dump format 3
Oops, wrong format version.
> What am I doing wrong here ?? any help would be great.
Try telling restore to use dump format version 2 by using the -K
option.
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-29 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 18:48 Question: Old Irix tape backup. Recovery on Linux (xfsdump/xfsrestore) Anthony l
2016-06-29 19:29 ` Eric Sandeen
2016-06-29 22:17 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-06-30 15:35 ` Anthony l
2016-06-30 16:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2016-06-30 16:59 ` Anthony l
2016-06-30 17:04 ` Eric Sandeen
2016-06-30 17:39 ` Anthony l
2016-06-30 22:07 ` Dave Chinner
2016-07-01 4:44 ` Andrew Ho
2016-07-01 18:23 ` Anthony l
2016-07-01 19:28 ` Roger Willcocks
2016-07-05 17:01 ` Anthony l
2016-07-04 0:15 ` Dave Chinner
2016-07-05 18:21 ` Roger Willcocks
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