Thanks, that works great. Is there a way to do an interactive restore if I'm backing up with tar? I got it to restore by piping amrestore to tar, but not interactively.
Thanks, Jenn ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 5:35 pm Subject: Re: can't restore irix client with linux host > 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/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >
