restore to Advfs?

Chris · *nix forums beginner Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 11

Adam,

Thanks very much for clearing that up for me. I've done a bunch of
restores that have worked fine. It seemed to bog down in the
beginning, but that was apparently in setting up the directories, which
in a couple of cases had many hundreds of sub-directories and was very
slow on my little alphastation.

regards, Chris

Adam Price · *nix forums beginner Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 23

On 30 Jan 2006 09:16:07 -0800, Chris wrote:

Chris · *nix forums beginner Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 11

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I've got a small alpha system that I just set up. (extreme newbie to
Tru64) It uses advfs by default. My friend has some tapes written with
the dump command. The manpages say you can only use vdump/vrestore
under advfs--but that would make it impossible to read older tapes.

I've started to try it with "restore -r -v" anyway, and it seems to
start working, but then it gets really slow during the "make node"
steps, and the tape drive stops moving. Can you give me any pointers?
Thanks.

Chris

Chris · *nix forums beginner Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 11

The manpages seem to imply one can *only* use vdump/vrestore from advfs
file systems. If that's so, how can one read older (UFS) dump/restore
tapes on a newer system that's set up with advfs?

Seems logical that it should be backward compatible at least for
reading, if not for writing.

Am I misreading the manual?

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