topic tape error in Operating System - HP-UX

tape error

Eric Zumwalt_1 — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:19:38 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to restore from tape using this command: tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m and I receive this error,

Tar: blocksize = 2
directory checksum error

Any ideas what this means.

Thanks,

Re: tape error

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:25:39 GMT

Hi,

This means either this tape was not probably created with tar. Are you sure it has a tar image?

Try with 'frecover' and see if it responds.

frecover -x -I /tmp/index -f /dev/rmt/0m

If that doesn't then try with cpio etc.,

-Sri

Re: tape error

Eric Zumwalt_1 — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:50:50 GMT

Thanks,

Figured out what happened. It was in tar format but someone over wrote the tape using frecover.