Craig Goodyear wrote:
I have recently updated my FC3 kernel from 2.6.9-1.667 to
2.6.10-1.766_FC3. The system has had all available updates applied. I
am using a Seagate STT8000A ATAPI tape drive for backup. I am loading
the ide-scsi module. Prior to the update, tar and dump both worked
without any problems using this tape drive.
Since the kernel update, tar and dump appear to write the files to the
tape drive: no error messages are generated during the write and the
tape is positioned at the correct block following the write. However, I
am not able to restore any of the backup files to the hard disk. Using
tar, no errors are returned, and no files are restored. Using restore,
the following error is generated: "restore: Tape is not a dump tape."
dump format and tar format are not the same thing. restore only
restores dump tapes. If you tried to restore a tar tape, then that
message makes absolute sense. To see what's on a tar tape:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
tar tf /dev/st0
To restore a tar tape with tar:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
tar xf /dev/st0
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