On Friday 07 January 2005 11:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >Hello, Brian, > >I thought of your problems this morning ;-) > >Just now (on 01/07/2005 at 17:17) you wrote: > >BC> Oddly trying to dd if=/dev/rmt/tps... read no data > >BC> samar 85# mt -f /dev/rmt/tps1d4nrns rewind >BC> samar 86# dd if=/dev/rmt/tps1d4nrns of=scratch >BC> Read error: Invalid argument > >"Invalid argument" ! > >Gene wrote: > >GH> Then you can use a >GH> #dd if=/path/to/device of=scratch count=1
Normally this isn't required. dd will read to the end of the record by default I think. >Notice the option "count", dd has to be told how much to read/write >... > >BC> However, I ran amdump last night. Still having problems with TAR > DLE BC> though oddly I was able to see that a DUMP DLE attempted to > write. > >BC> I was able to retrieve the file, using both amrestore and Eric's >BC> suggestion of manually issuing the dd command to get the file > from BC> tape. I was able to open the dump file (DLE for /usr1) and > saw that BC> the file "kmitra" was present. This I thought to be > good news since BC> the only top level file on the partition is > kmitra/ (note directlry BC> slash). Unfortuantely xfsdump reported > the file as a regular file BC> and not a directory and I was unable > to proceed from there. > >Do your AMANDA-binaries point to the proper xfs-tools? Is the proper >xfsdump used? > >BC> I've tried to retrieve several of the TAR DLE but have been > unsuccessful BC> with either method. > >BC> On the issue of streaming the drive vs horsepower. We have a > holding BC> disk (unlike a few early runs of this config) and we > seem to dump to BC> tape quickly enough once the dumper portion > completes. I don't know that BC> we are polishing the tape. > >BC> Something very basic is wrong, looks like the 15th config is the >BC> unlucky one. > >What about setting up a second config on this host, with just one >small DLE and a few tapes for testing? Maybe you can dig things up >with this. This does sound like a good suggestion until this has been figured out. >And BTW: could you please try to strip the older mails from your >replies to save bandwidth, your last mail was about 26k in size, > with only a few new lines in it. Thank you. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
