[SunRescue] ufsrestore problem

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

I've done this...  ufsrestore doesn't have it, but you want the command
mt.  The exact command is:

mt -f /dev/rmt/0n fsf 1

Where /dev/rmt/0n is your non-rewinding tape device, and the '1' is the
number of EOF markers to fast forward over.  It actually works quite well.
Although, make sure you use a non-rewinding device, otherwise mt will 
happily fast forward past the markers, and then rewind the tape :)

--Kurt

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Lyndon Griffin wrote:

> Please, please help...  maybe I'm just inexperienced, or maybe just stupid. 
> I'll go along with either at this point.  My problem:
> 
> The old sysadmin used to make backups of Solaris 2.5.1 machines using ufsdump.
>  I have determined that he was putting several filesystems on a single tape,
> however is that something of a paradox?  Since ufsdump can only do a single
> filesystem at a time, the sysadmin used the non-rewinding tape driver to
> continue and fill the tape.  I cannot find an option in ufsrestore that will
> let me move to subsequent dumps on the same tape, but I'm quite sure that the
> files are there (that is, I'm sure that he dumped several times to the same
> tape without rewinding).  man ufsrestore/ufsdump is no roadmap in this area, nor
> is anything I could find on rmt.
> 
> I feel like the answer is just on the tip of my frontal lobe, but I cannot seem
> to materialize the thought.  Any help is much appreciated.
> 
> <:)  Lyndon
>