Urgent help about dump-restore is needed!

[Arthur Pemberton]

I have no experience with that. But this may help:
http://surf.ap.seikei.ac.jp/~nakano/dump-restore/

On 1/27/06, Hongwei Li <hongwei at wustl.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an urgent problem.  For some reason some users's mail inbox got
> wiped
> out. I need to restore them from the tape backup.  I use dump to backup
> them
> up.  I have trouble to restore. What I did is:
>
> # mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
> # mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 14  -- to the beginning point of /var backup
> # restore if /dev/st0
> restore > ls
> .:
> ...  log/             spool/
> ...
> restore > cd spool/mail
> restore > ls
> ./spool/mail:
> (all username, look normal)
> restore > add user1name
> restore > extract
> You have not read any volumes yet.
> Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start
> with the last volume and work towards the first.
> Specify next volume # (none if no more volumes):
>
> What should I enter?  I tried 1, then I can extract one user's mail,
> however,
> I could not extract any other users.  I quit and redo the above from
> beginning
> (mt ...), it starts asking me:
>
> You have not read any volumes yet.
> Unless you know which volume your file(s) are on you should start
> with the last volume and work towards the first.
> Specify next volume # (none if no more volumes):
> Specify next volume # (none if no more volumes): 1
> Mount tape volume 1
> Enter ``none'' if there are no more tapes
> otherwise enter tape name (default: /dev/st0)
>
> Then, it does not work no matter what I entered.  What should I
> do?  Please help!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Hongwei Li
>
>
>
>
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