How to get around a bad file on a backup tape

[Karen Lee_3]

I have a full backup of my system disk that I need to restore some files from. At some point a developer created some process that generated a directory structure that was 15 or 20 deep. When I do a restore and it hit's those files on the tape, the restore fails with an 'error in directory'.

I tried to do an "ignore" in the back up statement but it still fails. The files I need are beyond this point but in the same saveset.

Is there any way to get past this error and get my files off tape>

OpenVMS 7.3-1 - backed up on DLT IV tapes.

[Karen Lee_3]

Meant to say I tried to do "exclude" statement" not ignore

[Karl Rohwedder]

Karen,

do you just need 'some' files from the saveset and have you tried BACKUP/LOG/SELECT=[...]...?

regards Kalle

[Jan van den Ende · Accepted solution]

Karen,

you need a free disk of sufficient size for this.
Do a /IMAGE restore.
And now take the files you need from the disk.

hth

Proost.

Have one on me (maybe at the Bootcamp in Nashua?)

jpe

[Verne Britton]

I've not played with LDDRIVER much, but the Logical Disk Driver (see Freeware V7 for the submission named simply LD for a 7.3-1 version; LD and utilities are included on more recent versions of VMS) lets you create a file on disk (any size) and then "mount" it as a logical disk :-)

SO... depending on your disk resources, you could create a LD "disk" just a bit bigger than your system disk image, and then do an image restore to that LD device ... thus not needing a spare physical disk as the target of the image restore.

Just an option ...

p.s. in searching for LDDRIVER for this posting, I came across a nice writeup in the OpenVMS FAQ, page 13, item 9.7, entitled:

How do I write CD-Recordable or DVD media on OpenVMS

That item has more detail on getting the right LD utilities for different versions of VMS; see http://h71000.www7.hp.com/faq/vmsfaq_013.html#file7 for section 9.7


Verne