On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:20:02PM +0000, Chris Cooke wrote:
> with this command:
>
> amrestore -p /dev/rmt/0n machine name disk | ufsrestore -if -
>
> When this is tried with one of the Ultrium backup tapes, the restore
> proceeds as normally: I choose the files to be restored, type
> "extract", and ufsrestore successfully restores some of the files from
> the tape; but before finishing the restore, it stops and gives me the
> message
>
> changing volumes on pipe input
> abort? [yn]
>
> I tried asking Sun, thinking that this might be a Solaris issue
> (before I noticed that the problem only occurs with Amanda-written
> ufsdump tapes), but Sun hasn't heard of this problem and says that
> it's never heard of Amanda and doesn't support it. Has anyone here
> come across a problem like this, or do you know what might be going
> wrong?
Amanda 2.4.2p2, Solaris 2.6 server, Solaris 2.6 client, DLT-7000,
file system size ~25GB.
You're not the only person to see this. If you search the amanda-users
archive for: changing volumes on pipe input, you'll find a not-terribly
cheerful thread from last May.
I've seen it once, so it appears to be intermittent for me. In my
case, I got all files, but 'ufsrestore i' and 'ufsrestore x' failed
with your error message, so I didn't get proper directory
owner/group/permissions.
In my case, 'ufsrestore r' did work perfectly, so I'm not quite as
frightened as I would be otherwise. The trials I ran were:
Trial Results
----- -------
amrecover Fail with "changing volumes on pipe input"
amrestore to file, then:
ufsrestore if Fail with "Specify next volume #".
ufsrestore xf Fail with "Specify next volume #".
ufsrestore rf Worked perfectly.
It's not clear to me if this is ufsdump problem, a ufsrestore problem,
a taper problem, or some strange combination.
I'm moving everything to Solaris 8 in the next two months, and have
fantasized that the issue will go away; though the amanda-users
archive is not terribly optimistic about that, either. :-)
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