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Subject:    [Dump-users] Restore retrieves and creates directories but no data!
From:       Brent Busby <brent () keycorner ! org>
Date:       2006-01-11 23:01:26
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.62.0601111649070.14042 () village ! keycorner ! org
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Can anyone imagine what might have happened here:

I do 'restore -rv -b64 -f /dev/st0' to restore a level 0 dump from DAT 
tape.  All the directories seem to get restored, and the stdout prints 
'Making node' for each of them as they are encountered on the tape -- 
but alarmingly, there are no regular files!  I can also do 'restore -i' 
and see all the files in the catalog, but when extracting, I never get 
any data, just directories.

I tried to reassure myself that it was just extracting the directories 
before it gets to the data (and I never did play out the whole tape to 
test that -- it would take hours, and I'm still checking things), but 
the thing that really scares me is that there are long pauses -- 
sometimes *very* long pauses, about as long as the actual extraction of 
regular files might take, in between the creation of some of these dir 
nodes.  That doesn't sound good.

So, does restore always create all dir nodes on extraction before moving 
on to regular files?

If so, is there any reason there would be pauses of several minutes in 
between the dirs?

If not, then is there some way you can imagine that my settings could be 
correct enough to let it read the dump label, the catalog, and the path 
names, but not correct enough to see the data?  It's very weird.

And by the way, this _is_ mission critical, so I do appreciate any help 
you can give here....

-- 
+ Brent A. Busby,   UNIX Systems Admin	 +   "It's like being	+
+ James Franck / Enrico Fermi Institute	 +    blindsided by a	+
+     The University of Chicago		 +    flying dwarf..."	+


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