leonh@hhb.UUCP (leon howorth) (08/11/90)
I am having trouble restoring files from a dump tape made a few months ago and I thought maybe someone out there can provide some advice. The dump in question was made from a Pyramid machine (which we no longer have - but was running their flavor of unix), to an Exabyte on a SUN 4/280 running SunOS 4.0.3. Our network dumps are such that the SUN backup server r-shell's to the target machine, the dump program is run on the target machine with the exabyte on the SUN designated as the remote device. I should also point out that a blocking factor = 8 is used for all the dumps. I had been able to (remotely) restore files to the Pyramid, but since we no longer have that machine I am trying to restore a user's subdirectory from the dump tape to a disk on another SUN system. Of course, since their is more than one dump file on the tape I fast forward to the appropriate one. I have tried both restore and rrestore with blocking factor = 8, but receive the following error message: "No Header After Volume Mark" which I am not familiar with. I would appreciate any suggestions as to how I can get restore to work, or if there are other methods of retreiving the files I need. Thanks. -- Leon A. Howorth | UUCP: ....princeton!hhb!leonh Computer Operations Manager | ARPA: leonh%hhb@princeton.edu Racal-Redac | VOICE: 201-848-8000 ext. 243 Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 | FAX: 201-848-8189