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Article #384Re: another dump question
From: Richard H. E. Eiger
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 18:48
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 18:48
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In article <BsEDwC.D6t@casper.cs.uct.ac.za> goosen@ikura.cs.uct.ac.za (Henk
Goosen) writes:
> I'm trying to use dump with an Archive Python DAT drive. The dump seems to
work
> fine (using "dump 0fsu /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/sd0a" for example). However, if
I
> do "restore fi /dev/rst0" to check on the dump, it frequently does not work,
> reporting "Tape/disk read error: I/O error". I clean the drive regulary using
a
> cleaning cartridge, and I've never had any problems with tar.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior with dump and this DAT drive?
>
> Thanks
> -- Henk
>
> Hendrik A. Goosen: goosen@cs.uct.ac.za
> Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch,
> 7700 South Africa
> --------
Same happened to me. THe solution:
restore ibf 10 /dev/rst0
Your dump is ok, I'm pretty sure. BTW I had problems using tar because of some
pathnames exceeding the maximum allowed.
Richard
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