SUMMARY new tape drive - backup issues

Thanks to everyone that responded.

I was able to successfully restore files from various filesets off the
tape specifing the device:

mt -f /dev/ntape/tape1
vrestore -f /dev/ntape/tape1

In our backup script, I was specifing the dump command as:


Michael Bucholtz 
Systems Consultant, Colleague Operations & Support 
OA Solutions 
E-mail: [email protected] 
Phone: 250-385-4333 ext 213 
Fax: 250-483-3380 
Cell: 250-217-8976 
www.oasolutions.ca 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bucholtz, Michael 
Sent: August 4, 2005 10:33 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: new tape drive - backup issues

We recently installed a new scsci hba & tape drive to replace older
equipment..
 
The parts configured fine on the system, can see the devices etc.
Backing up the system using vdump went fine (see part of the log below),
but when trying to do a restore, no matter how far we advance the tape
to the next file system, it always shows trying to restore the root
fileset (/):

Here's a snippit of the vdump log (backup the actual /, /usr & /var
filesets and clone the other 8 filesets).. we do full backups.  Any idea
where I can look to find what the issue is? When I try to advance the
tape, I do a "mt fsf 3" (to get to the first cloned fileset).. vrestore
-l lists the root fileset.. our procedure hasn't changed..just the 2
devices..  

The name of the modified device is /dev/ntape/tape1c
path     : /
dev/fset : root_domain#root
type     : advfs
advfs id : 0x41607586.000e2bf0.1
vdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch
vdump: Dumping directories
vdump: Dumping 225834447 bytes, 203 directories, 4435 files
vdump: Dumping regular files

vdump: Status at Thu Aug  4 00:19:50 2005
vdump: Dumped  225957217 of 225834447 bytes; 100.1% completed
vdump: Dumped  203 of 203 directories; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dumped  4435 of 4435 files; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dump completed at Thu Aug  4 00:19:50 2005

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:::::::
Backing up /usr at Thu Aug 4 00:19:50 PDT 2005
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::

The name of the modified device is /dev/ntape/tape1c
path     : /usr
dev/fset : usr_domain#usr
type     : advfs
advfs id : 0x4160758d.000ddbe0.1
vdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch
vdump: Dumping directories
vdump: Dumping 987084042 bytes, 1257 directories, 29803 files
vdump: Dumping regular files

vdump: Status at Thu Aug  4 00:22:59 2005
vdump: Dumped  989488328 of 987084042 bytes; 100.2% completed
vdump: Dumped  1257 of 1257 directories; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dumped  29803 of 29803 files; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dump completed at Thu Aug  4 00:22:59 2005

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:::::::
Backing up /var at Thu Aug 4 00:22:59 PDT 2005
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::

The name of the modified device is /dev/ntape/tape1c
path     : /var
dev/fset : var_domain#var
type     : advfs
advfs id : 0x4160758e.00081c40.1
vdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch
vdump: Dumping directories
vdump: Dumping 1182239883 bytes, 600 directories, 7144 files
vdump: Dumping regular files

vdump: Status at Thu Aug  4 00:26:52 2005
vdump: Dumped  1182271238 of 1182239883 bytes; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dumped  600 of 600 directories; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dumped  7150 of 7144 files; 100.1% completed
vdump: Dump completed at Thu Aug  4 00:26:52 2005

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:::::::
Backing up /csb/cnc from /clones/cnc at Thu Aug 4 00:26:52 PDT 2005
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::

The name of the modified device is /dev/ntape/tape1c
path     : /clones/cnc
dev/fset : coll_domain#clonecnc
type     : advfs
advfs id : 0x41608004.000dcdf8.15
vdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch
vdump: Dumping directories
vdump: Dumping 16376377704 bytes, 1394 directories, 182429 files
vdump: Dumping regular files

vdump: Status at Thu Aug  4 00:32:31 2005
vdump: Dumped  3971426059 of 16376377704 bytes; 24.3% completed
vdump: Dumped  63 of 1394 directories;  4.5% completed
vdump: Dumped  79600 of 182429 files; 43.6% completed

vdump: Status at Thu Aug  4 00:37:31 2005
vdump: Dumped  8134342151 of 16376377704 bytes; 49.7% completed
vdump: Dumped  219 of 1394 directories; 15.7% completed
vdump: Dumped  84683 of 182429 files; 46.4% completed

vdump: Status at Thu Aug  4 00:42:33 2005
vdump: Dumped  11772745476 of 16376377704 bytes; 71.9% completed
vdump: Dumped  304 of 1394 directories; 21.8% completed
vdump: Dumped  163927 of 182429 files; 89.9% completed

vdump: Status at Thu Aug  4 00:47:40 2005
vdump: Dumped  15736664708 of 16376377704 bytes; 96.1% completed
vdump: Dumped  493 of 1394 directories; 35.4% completed
vdump: Dumped  172479 of 182429 files; 94.5% completed

vdump: Status at Thu Aug  4 00:48:46 2005
vdump: Dumped  16376382966 of 16376377704 bytes; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dumped  1394 of 1394 directories; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dumped  182429 of 182429 files; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dump completed at Thu Aug  4 00:48:46 2005

Removing clone fileset coll_domain clonecnc

(7 additional filesets are backed up after this..)

 
 
Michael Bucholtz 
Systems Consultant, Colleague Operations & Support 
OA Solutions 
E-mail: [email protected] 
Phone: 250-385-4333 ext 213 
Fax: 250-483-3380 
Cell: 250-217-8976 
www.oasolutions.ca