From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F346E7CA1 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:17:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B848B8F8040 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.143]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 4EFmTG1UOjYfPIcz for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:17:49 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: Question: Old Irix tape backup. Recovery on Linux (xfsdump/xfsrestore) Message-ID: <20160629221749.GP12670@dastard> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Anthony l Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs