Hey, folks: We have brought some simple backup scripts over from our Solaris boxes to our the Redhat world and changed a few parameters in order to get some weekly full/daily incremental backups going on important data. I dump as follows: /sbin/dump 0bdfsu 32 327000 /dev/nrst0 40000 /dev/sdaX I restore as follows: cd /relevant_mount_point mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf X restore -if /dev/nrst0 add extract ....error messages.... In general, our results with dump are fine and pretty much as expected. The problem comes during restore. We have no reported tape errors, but a great many small files - some (but not all) of which are device files, fail to restore with the error message: "cannot create special file - invalid argument." The weird thing is that most of the files are NOT special files... We have tried this on Ecrix and Exabyte drives and the result is the same - it does not appear to be a tape-related issue, but something having to do with dump/restore... By the way, 1. Both dump and restore commands are executed as root, 2. Dumps/restores are done on ext2 FS's, and 3. the same sort of stuff (minor param variations) works flawlessly to a DAT tape on a Solaris box. Any ideas?? Thanks, Mark Dzmura
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