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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.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  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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