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)
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
xfsrestore: searching media for dump
xfsrestore: preparing drive
xfsrestore: examining media file 1
...
xfsrestore examining media file xx
the following dump has been found on drive 0:
hostname: isp---------(stuff)
mount point: /isp-iga
volume: /dev/rdsk/sks0d2s7
session time: Mon Jan 10 11:47:42 2005
media label: "backup"
file system id: xxx....
session id: xxx...
media id:...
restore this dump?
1: skip
2: restore (default)
> 2 (enter)
======
examining media file 0
reading directories
examining media file 1
reading directories
... and so on
no files selected for restoral
====
1: media change declined (timeout 3600 seconds)
2: display media inventory status
3: list needed media objects
4: change media (default)
3 and 4 do nothing
I get no media needed. and If I press 4 same menu comes back.
2: media file xxx (xxx) where xxx is a number
used for directory restoral
first extent contained: ino xxxxxxxxxxxx off 0
next extent to restore: ino (same as above) off 0
and If I click 1:
restoral interrupted use -R
restore summery:
stream 0: /dev/nst0 quit media no longer usable
restore status: QUIT
Then if I got to the directory where I pointed all I have is:
orphanage/
xfsrestorehelperblahblah/
where orphangae is empty and the other contains like 5 files that are just something else.
What am I doing wrong here ?? any help would be great.
Thanks