On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 06:48:29PM +0000, Anthony l wrote:
> Hello Anthony here,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the correct place to send a question, If I am wrong I
> would appreciate if you could send me in the right direction. I have come
> across the oss.sgi forums a lot looking for a solution to my problem but I
> could not find much.
>
>
> Here's my situation.
>
> I have a bunch a tapes that were created way back when using an IRIX system.
> Some kind of version 6, perhaps even the latest version. anyway I am able to
> peak at the headers to determind the the file type on the drive is indeed:
>
> xFSdump0.... or when I make a sample using 'dd if=/dev/nst0 of=./test.img'
> '+ 'file test.img' I get XFSDUMP archive (version 2)
dump version 2....
> So, instinctively to get the data off the tapes I would think would be as
> simple as:
>
> sudo xfsrestore -f /dev/nst0 ./path to where I want it stored
>
> Then I get:
>
> using dump format 3
Oops, wrong format version.
> What am I doing wrong here ?? any help would be great.
Try telling restore to use dump format version 2 by using the -K
option.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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