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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