Anyone having problems restoring their dump tapes? We pulled a couple of old archive tapes (6 mo. old level 0 dumps) to restore some files and were unable to read them. Kept getting buffer size or buffer allocation errors. Placed a call to Tech. Sup. waiting for a callback (and waiting, and waiting, and waiting...).
While waiting we tried some experiments. The tapes were written on an F330 running 4.x NFS & CIFS enabled (so we cannot use a sun to restore them). We discovered that we could read recent tapes written by either an F630 or F330 on a F630 running 5.1.2P1 with NFS & CIFS.
I strongly suspect that a filer running 5.1.2P1 cannot read tapes written with 4.x. This has a less than pleasant affect on our backup & archive strategy.
Can anyone confirm this?
What's the exact error message?
You should be able to restore 4.x tapes on 5.1 systems, and 5.1 tapes on 4.x systems (obviously ACLs disappear)
Stephen Manley FS Recovery Superfan