Need help on frecover

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

> Does tat mean there is no option in frecover to do tat??

If, in fact, your archive was created on 11.31 and you attempting to recover on 11.23 or earlier, then, no, there is no option to force 'frecover' to recover the archive onto an earlier operating system. Look at the manpages for 'frecover' under the warnings section and you will find:

/* begin_quote */

Archives and files with formats and attributes that are unsupported on previous HP-UX releases could cause severe problems or unpredictable behavior if attempts were made to restore onto these systems. For this reason, fbackup creates tapes with a magic number that is only recognized on releases which support the features and format being archived. This prevents fbackup tape archives from being restored on earlier HP-UX systems than are supported. frecover still reads all tape formats so that fbackup tape archives created on earlier HP-UX systems can be restored.

/* endof_quote */

If, on the other hand you have inadvertently re-used the tape with a non-'fbackup' utility (tar, cpio, pax, etc.) then the 'fbackup' label is gone or corrupted and the ability to recover the archive data has been lost.

Once again, I'd take the approach Bill suggested and move on.

Regards!

....JRF...

[Bob_Vance]

I must have missed something.

His original command showed that he was recovering from a file.

It would appear that the file backup being created is bad.


bv

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

> Bob: His original command showed that he was recovering from a file.

That matters not. 'frecover' doesn't care whether the 'fbackup' archive is a tape or it's a file on a disk. The constraints, and the magic value header are the same.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Bob_Vance]

It matters to the extent that talking about tape drives and tapes is irrelevant.

Of course, 'frecover' is complaining about header, whatever the source.

My point is that that whatever creates this dump.level? file is what has recently changed.
Or something else is clobbering it.
Or it needs to be re-created.
Or....

bv