Subject: Re: xfsrestore fails: assertion failure in  do_next_mark
From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
To: unruh@acm.org
Cc: Simon Matter <simon.matter@ch.sauter-bc.com>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
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Date: 31 Jan 2002 12:59:53 -0600
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On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 12:58, unruh@acm.org wrote:
> On 31-Jan-2002 Simon Matter wrote:
> 
> > IIRC I got the same error some months ago when trying to restore from a
> > DDS2 DAT drive. On the same system restoring from DLT was okay. I didn't
> > try again but I guess this bug is still not fixed :-(
> 
> After some reading of the mailing list archives, I added the following at 
> line 1481 in drive_scsitape.c (version 1.5):
> 
>    rechdrp->first_mark_offset =
>          INT_GET(rechdrp->first_mark_offset,ARCH_CONVERT);
> 
> 
> The patched xfsrestore can read the damaged backup, but will probably be unable
> to read backups from newer versions of xfsdump. 
> 


I think, (but do not know since he is in Australia) that our dump/restore
expert is out on vacation right now, so you may have to wait a while for 
a response on this one.

Steve

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