Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!pauli!belonis From: belonis@pauli.phys.washington.edu Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: SGI and DEC Alpha OSF/1 dump/restore incompatible ? Date: 24 Apr 94 08:00:41 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 41 Distribution: na Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pauli.phys.washington.edu I am trying to dump 22 gigabytes of disk partitions from several architectures to a single Exabyte 8505 tape drive on an SGI Indigo Irix 4.0.5f using multiple tapes of course since we have never gotten more than about 6 gigabytes on a single tape. This is finally working mostly (after lots of trouble resulting in sending the drive back for warrantee repair). The remaining problems are apparent incompatibilities between dump/restore on SGI and on Alpha OSF/1 (and maybe Ultrix but we don't care). From the OSF/1 system we do a "dump 0f - | rsh dd" pipe to the SGI tape drive and the resulting tape can not be restored on the SGI system. We use blocking factor 56 (as a most common denominator). We are using the /dev/rmt/tps0d5nrnsv device. We get the following from our dump script Contents of dumptape 0.2apr1994: file 1 on tape 0.2apr1994: Level 0 dump of / on squark:/dev/rz3a Label: No label /usr/adm/dump/dumpall: 597 Memory fault - core dumped Restore failed Controller: SCSI Device: EXABYTE: EXB-85058SQANXR105B0 Status: 0x20260 Drive type: unknown Media : READY, writable, not at BOT, block 4 But it can be restored with rdump on the OSF/1 system accessing the SGI drive. We would like to just run our tape(s) through a simple sequence of restore commands on the SGI to list the contents for on-line reference. Does anyone know a way to make this possible ?