Re: fbackup Problem - Please Help

dinesh.chetty_at_eskom.co.za
Date: 12/19/03

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    Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:34:28 +0200

    I tried to list all the files on the tape like you said, I can see all of
    the files in the tmp/filelist, file that was created, but still I cannot all
    restore them.

    "Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote in message
    news:3fe0822d$0$64989$1b62eedf@news.euronet.nl...
    > dinesh.chetty@eskom.co.za wrote:
    > > Hi
    > >
    > > I have an urgent problem to solve. I need to recover a few files from a
    DLT
    > > tape. The backup was done on a DLT 7000 device, using the Fbackup tool
    > > available on HP-UX. When I try and recover using the command "frecover"
    I
    > > am only able to restore the first two files that was backed up, the rest
    > > just doesn't restore, it hangs with no error message. I have tried to
    > > recover on a different box that the back was done on, and I get the same
    > > results. How can I get those files off the tape?
    >
    > Does the busy-indicator on the tape drive blink when frecover hangs?
    > If so, there might be some big files which need to be skipped (or even
    > read), before frecover gets to the wanted files.
    >
    > It is probably best to first try to get a real list of contents from
    > the tape by doing:
    >
    > /usr/sbin/frecover -r[m]vN -f /dev/rmt/... 2>/tmp/filelist
    >
    > "N" does a pseudo restore, i.e. it will do everything *except* the
    > actual restore. "v" causes the names of the found files to be written to
    > standard error (hence the "2>...").
    >
    > It is probably best to use the "m" option (report fast-search
    > markers), run the command in the background (add "&" at the end) and
    > monitor the output:
    >
    > tail -f /tmp/filelist | more
    >
    > Please report the results of these operations.

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