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Title: Restore failed
Post by: geoff on November 12, 2003, 07:53:51 AM

I have a P4 2.4, 512Mb RAM, Intel mainboard with an Ecrix VXA-1 TapeDrive, and two WD IDE HDD.

The email showing a successful backup appears every day. By mistake, some critical files were deleted so I elected to restore from backup after which this was received:

Restoring from tape was successful.
>
> For more details concerning this successful restore see:
>
>     /var/log/messages
>     /flexbackup.extract.log

Great! Except there was no restore, and this is the log:

| Logging output to "flexbackup.extract.200311111224.log"
| Reading from CURRENT TAPE POSITION
|------------------------------------------------------------
At block 2.
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Extracting files listed in /tmp/restore.3488
| buffer -m 3m -s 10k -u 100 -t -p 75 -B -i "/dev/nst0" | gzip -dq |
|   restore -x   -b 10 -o -f - home/e-smith etc/e-smith/templates-custom
|   etc/e-smith/templates-user-custom etc/ssh root etc/passwd etc/shadow
|   etc/group etc/gshadow etc/samba/smbpasswd etc/smbpasswd
|------------------------------------------------------------
restore: cannot open /dev/tty: No such device or address
restore: Tape is not a dump tape

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
buffer (writer): write of data failed: Success
bytes to write=10240, bytes written=6144, total written         30K
|------------------------------------------------------------
At block 235.
|------------------------------------------------------------


Yuk!!

Any ideas?

Title: Re: Restore failed
Post by: richard on November 28, 2003, 12:56:27 AM

I'm having the same type of problem. Did you allready find a solution?

Title: Re: Restore failed
Post by: geoff on December 08, 2003, 04:19:51 AM

Yes. Use Arkeia instead.

IHTH

geoff

Title: Re: Restore failed
Post by: richard on December 08, 2003, 09:39:14 AM

But I'm linux-nono... I don't know anything about Linux and I am just looking for an easy way to handle a fileserver. SME succeeds in everything but the backup...

Is it easy to install software under Linux?

Title: Re: Restore failed
Post by: Bill on December 09, 2003, 06:35:59 PM

I use MondoArchive which works great for my small SME server. Everything fits on 1 bootable CDrom. You can find it at sourceforge and the best part is its open source. If your backup is too big for 1 cd, it spans disks nicely.

I have restored from it and it works perfectly. Also great for cloning systems.