Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-16 Thread Kim Kimball
Gérald Macinenti wrote: Kim Kimball a écrit : The backup dump command has "-append" as an option. Do you know if this was used when the dumps were created? yes it was used, and as I understand, this is what caused the problem as appending to a dump is only supported

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-13 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Kim Kimball a écrit : The backup dump command has -append as an option. Do you know if this was used when the dumps were created? yes it was used, and as I understand, this is what caused the problem as appending to a dump is only supported for tape devices, not files. So the problem arises

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-12 Thread Gerald Macinenti
Carsten Schulz-Key wrote: Gerald Macinenti wrote: When trying to restore a volume for which I have incremental dumps on tape (not a tape but a file on an external disk), I can sucessfully restore the last full dump but increments are not appended, I have the following error in butc output:

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-12 Thread Kim Kimball
The backup dump command has -append as an option. Do you know if this was used when the dumps were created? Gerald Macinenti wrote: Carsten Schulz-Key wrote: Gerald Macinenti wrote: When trying to restore a volume for which I have incremental dumps on tape (not a tape but a file on an

[OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-11 Thread Gerald Macinenti
Hi, When trying to restore a volume for which I have incremental dumps on tape (not a tape but a file on an external disk), I can sucessfully restore the last full dump but increments are not appended, I have the following error in butc output: Restoring volume myuser.restored Id XXX on

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-11 Thread Kim Kimball
Why 'butm' and not 'butc?' Gerald Macinenti wrote: Hi, When trying to restore a volume for which I have incremental dumps on tape (not a tape but a file on an external disk), I can sucessfully restore the last full dump but increments are not appended, I have the following error in butc

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-11 Thread Kim Kimball
Gerald, if you run backup volinfo volname does it show the incrementals? Kim Gerald Macinenti wrote: Hi, When trying to restore a volume for which I have incremental dumps on tape (not a tape but a file on an external disk), I can sucessfully restore the last full dump but increments are

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-11 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Kim Kimball a écrit : Gerald, if you run backup volinfo volname does it show the incrementals? yes Gerald Macinenti wrote: Hi, When trying to restore a volume for which I have incremental dumps on tape (not a tape but a file on an external disk), I can sucessfully restore the last full

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-11 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Kim Kimball a écrit : Why 'butm' and not 'butc?' no idea my Tape Coordinator is launched with /usr/sbin/butc $portoffset Gerald Macinenti wrote: Hi, When trying to restore a volume for which I have incremental dumps on tape (not a tape but a file on an external disk), I can sucessfully

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-11 Thread Kim Kimball
Can you tell me what's in the config file for the butm port? (/usr/afs/backup/CFG_port number) Gérald Macinenti wrote: Kim Kimball a écrit : Gerald, if you run backup volinfo volname does it show the incrementals? yes Gerald Macinenti wrote: Hi, When trying to restore a volume for

Re: [OpenAFS] Error restoring volumes from backup

2007-07-11 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Kim Kimball a écrit : Can you tell me what's in the config file for the butm port? (/usr/afs/backup/CFG_port number) the file is CFG_var_openafs_backup_link and its content is FILE YES MOUNT /var/openafs/backup/bin/mount-script UNMOUNT /var/openafs/backup/bin/mount-script Gérald Macinenti