Restoration Error

[Mohammad Sanaullah]

I am facing aproblem while restoring the files through the tape drive that shows the
CPIO bad magic error,
i am using the restoration in sun Solaris 9.

What are the possible reason or any solution for that error.

Waiting for Reply
Thanks in Advance

Mohammad Sanaullah

[Andrew Merritt_2]

Hi Mohammad,
What system was the tape written on, and with what options? (And I would say that if it wasn't an HP system, and if it's not an HP tape drive, then the question doesn't belong on this forum.)

Andrew

[spex]

Hello,

It seems that cpio under Solaris 9 doesn't understand the format of the archive on tape ("bad magic"). Was the archive created using a different version of cpio, perhaps under a different OS?

I suppose it's also possible, though less likely, that the portion of tape containing the archive's header has become corrupt.

PCS