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[Veritas-bu] Problem with restoring files

2001-07-18 16:42:19
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Problem with restoring files
From: JCohen AT cyberdialogue DOT com (Joel D Cohen)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:42:19 -0400
1. The backups are of oracle dump files, not live database files. I'm not
using any extensions currently, but we have
the Oracle extension. Never got to setting it up correctly since we
couldn't find proper documentation on how to get
it all working. I want to be able to do BLIBs.

2. No ner kernel patches were installed recently. My st.conf file looks has
these 2 lines for the AIT drives:

"SONY    SDX-500C", "Sony AIT", "SONY_AIT";
SONY_AIT        =       1,0x34,0,0x3d639,1,0x30,0;


Joel Cohen
Client Infrastructure Manager
Cyber Dialogue


                                                                                
                                                              
                    "Bob Bakh"                                                  
                                                              
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Two questions

1 what are the backups of, Oracle, File system, or NetApp, and if so did
you
use an extension, like RMAN or NDMP?

2.  Check your st.conf /kernel/drv/st.conf and confirm that it has not
changed in recent times.  Also have you installed any jumbo kernel patches
for Solaris lately.

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel D Cohen" <JCohen AT cyberdialogue DOT com>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Problem with restoring files


> Hi List,
>
> I'm running 3.4 on Solaris 2.6 with a SpectraLogic 10000 with 4 AIT-2
> drives. My backups run fine, but when I try
> to restore a file, I'm getting one of two things.
>
> 1. Trying to restore yields an error that says "media manager detected
that
> the tape is not in tar format" and the
> restore fails.
>
> 2. Trying to restore just exits with the message "failed to recover
> <filename>."
>
> This is not localized to a single tape or a single drive. I've tried all
4
> drives and tried restoring from a few different
> tapes as well. Has anyone else seen this behavior? I ran a few test tars
> and things seemed fine. I've opened a case
> with Veritas on this and the tech said that he'd never seen this before
and
> that my media might be bad. I am able to
> restore from the tape by directly using gnu tar, so I'm pretty sure that
my
> tapes are not bad.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Joel Cohen
> Client Infrastructure Manager
> Cyber Dialogue
>
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