On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:03:45PM -0500, Jenn Sturm wrote: > That should read "Now I've got a successful backup of the IRIX box, > but when I try to restore on the Linux host,..."
Dump and restore are architecture specific. IRIX dumps must be restored on IRIX. You may use Linux as the tape server. For architecture-independent backup and restore use GNU tar. > >I'm testing out backing up an Irix machine with a Linux box. I've > >already successfully run and restored backups on the Linux box. Now > >I've got a successful backup of the linux box, but when I try to > >restore using the following, I get this error: > > > >amrestore -p /dev/nst0 olympus /dev/dsk/dks3d11s3 | /sbin/restore -ivf - > > > >Verify tape and initialize maps > >Input is from file/pipe > >amrestore: 0: skipping start of tape: date 20020305 label olympus00 > >amrestore: 1: restoring olympus._dev_dsk_dks3d11s3.20020305.0 > >/sbin/restore: Error reading dump file header > > > >This happens for every partition I try to restore. > > > >Any thoughts? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Jenn Sturm > > > > > >.-------------------------------------------------------. > >|Jennifer Sturm | > >|System Administrator and Research Support Specialist | > >|Chemistry Department | > >|Hamilton College | > >| | > >|[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > >|315-859-4745 | > >|www.chem.hamilton.edu | > >.-------------------------------------------------------. > >|"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, | > >| and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." | > >| -Carl Zwanzig | > >| | > >| | > >|"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things| > >| go, and duct tape to make them stop. " | > >| -G. Weilacher | > >.-------------------------------------------------------. > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 URL http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------------
