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<p>Hello Anthony here,</p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p>Here's my situation.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p>xFSdump0.... or when I make a sample using 'dd if=/dev/nst0 of=./test.img' '+ 'file test.img' I get XFSDUMP archive (version 2)</p>
<p>So, instinctively to get the data off the tapes I would think would be as simple as:</p>
<p>sudo xfsrestore -f /dev/nst0 ./path to where I want it stored</p>
<p>Then I get: </p>
<p>using dump format 3</p>
<p>xfsrestore: searching media for dump</p>
<p>xfsrestore: preparing drive</p>
<p>xfsrestore: examining media file 1</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>xfsrestore examining media file xx</p>
<p>the following dump has been found on drive 0:</p>
<p>hostname: isp---------(stuff)</p>
<p>mount point: /isp-iga</p>
<p>volume: /dev/rdsk/sks0d2s7</p>
<p>session time: Mon Jan 10 11:47:42 2005</p>
<p>media label: "backup"</p>
<p>file system id: xxx....</p>
<p>session id: xxx...</p>
<p>media id:...</p>
<p>restore this dump?</p>
<p>1: skip</p>
<p>2: restore (default)</p>
<p>> 2 (enter)</p>
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<p>====== </p>
<p>examining media file 0</p>
<p>reading directories</p>
<p>examining media file 1</p>
<p>reading directories</p>
<p>... and so on</p>
<p>no files selected for restoral</p>
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<p>====</p>
<p>1: media change declined (timeout 3600 seconds)</p>
<p>2: display media inventory status</p>
<p>3: list needed media objects</p>
<p>4: change media (default) </p>
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<p>3 and 4 do nothing</p>
<p>I get no media needed. and If I press 4 same menu comes back. </p>
<p>2: media file xxx (xxx) where xxx is a number</p>
<p>used for directory restoral </p>
<p>first extent contained: ino xxxxxxxxxxxx off 0</p>
<p>next extent to restore: ino (same as above) off 0</p>
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<p>and If I click 1:</p>
<p>restoral interrupted use -R</p>
<p>restore summery:</p>
<p>stream 0: /dev/nst0 quit media no longer usable</p>
<p>restore status: QUIT</p>
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<p>Then if I got to the directory where I pointed all I have is:</p>
<p>orphanage/ </p>
<p>xfsrestorehelperblahblah/ </p>
<p>where orphangae is empty and the other contains like 5 files that are just something else. </p>
<p>What am I doing wrong here ?? any help would be great.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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