Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> What program do you use to do the backup? dump or tar?
> 
> Jean-Louis
> 
> khalil_noura wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 
> > I am trying to do a bare metal restore. After I partionsed the disk and 
> > restored the client to holding. I rebooted to rescue mode created a 
> > /mnt/sysimage directory mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/sysimage then cd 
> > /mnt/sysimage.
> > run this command: ssh amandaserver cat /holdingdisk/hostname._.0 | restore 
> > rf -
> > 
> > I get an error that reads "tape read error on first record"
> > 
> > any ideas?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
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I am using Dump

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