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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