Re: fbackup Problem - Please Help

From: Frank Slootweg (this_at_ddress.is.invalid)
Date: 12/19/03 

Date: 19 Dec 2003 13:42:53 GMT

dinesh.chetty@eskom.co.za wrote:
> 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.

  What error do you get (if any)?

  The most common problem is that people do not specify the filename
*exactly* as it appears on tape. The /tmp/filelist contains the exact
names, so use that. For example if the filename is /directory/file, then
the following will *not* work:

directory/file
./directory/file
etc.

  A wild card, i.e. /directory/fi*, will also *not* work.

> "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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