I didn't see a more specific forum for this, so here goes:
We have a dump that spanned 5 tape drives. I am trying to extract from
those tape drives a limited number of files. Here are the options I've
attempted to do this with and the subsequent errors with each:
- Listing the contents of a tape drive with 'restore -t -f /dev/st0'
only works on the very first tape in the series.
- The -t flag allows the use of the -M which is used when reading
multiple tape drives, however, it appears from the documentation that
the original dump would have had to be made with the -M option as well,
and using the -M option appends '001' to the name of the file you're
restoring from (in my case the tape drive /dev/st0 which makes it
/dev/st0001 and therefore it can not be found).
- I've tried an interactive restore with 'restore -i -f /dev/st0'.
When I am prompted to specify the next volume (tape #2) and then load
it, it reports:
Wrong dump date
got: Tue Dec 17 09:42:31 2002
wanted: Tue Dec 17 07:33:49 2002
Does this indicate the series of tapes I have are perhaps not all from
the same original dump? They're labeled A through E, and I inserted A
first, then B. I tried inserting the rest just to see if they were
mislabeled, but I got the "Wrong dump date" error on each one.
Any advice for extracting a limited number of specific files from
multiple tapes would be much appreciated.
-Smitty
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