Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-04 Thread Nataraj
On 11/3/18 5:17 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 3, 2018, at 06:26, Pete Biggs wrote: I don't think dump has changed anything in 20 years or so! And I certainly can't see it changing such that it can't read old files - that is, sort of, it's raison d'etre. A bit off topic but... Funny stor

Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-04 Thread Nataraj
On 11/3/18 9:35 AM, Nataraj wrote: On 11/3/18 3:26 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: restore tvf u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump Verify tape and initialize maps Input is from a local file/pipe Checksum error 2030402, inode 0 file (null) restore: Tape is not a dump tape what does 'file' think the file is - i.e.

Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-03 Thread Nataraj
On 11/3/18 3:26 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: restore tvf u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump Verify tape and initialize maps Input is from a local file/pipe Checksum error 2030402, inode 0 file (null) restore: Tape is not a dump tape what does 'file' think the file is - i.e. what does file u1_l0_04-29-09_m

Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 06:27, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > restore tvf u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump Verify tape and initialize maps > > Input is from a local file/pipe > > Checksum error 2030402, inode 0 file (null) > > restore: Tape is not a dump tape > > what does 'file' think the file is - i.e.

Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
> On Nov 3, 2018, at 06:26, Pete Biggs wrote: > I don't think dump has changed anything in 20 years or so! And I > certainly can't see it changing such that it can't read old files - > that is, sort of, it's raison d'etre. A bit off topic but... Funny story, at a previous job, my boss was able

Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-03 Thread Pete Biggs
> > restore tvf u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump Verify tape and initialize maps > Input is from a local file/pipe > Checksum error 2030402, inode 0 file (null) > restore: Tape is not a dump tape what does 'file' think the file is - i.e. what does file u1_l0_04-29-09_md1.dump say? > > > Here'

Re: [CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-02 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, November 02, 2018 8:03 PM -0700 Nataraj wrote: Have there been any changes to the format of dump files and if so, is there a version available that can read this older backup? Any other suggestions on how to read this backup would be helpful. If you get no help here. I recommend

[CentOS] reading old dump backups from 2009

2018-11-02 Thread Nataraj
I have and old dump format backup done under fedora 7 which is stored on disk and has an sha256sum file that indicates there are no data errors in the backup file.  When I try to read the file with restore under CentOS 6,  I get the following error: cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.10