Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!dvadura
From: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Problem copying a cartrige tape
Message-ID: <19011@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 89 15:25:19 GMT
References: <23078@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo
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In article <23078@gryphon.COM> lampi@pnet02.gryphon.com (Michael Lampi) writes:
>> What does the UID mismatch mean?   [text deleted]
>
>Sounds like you may have skipped a block, missed an end-of-file marker, or the
>original tape is bad.

Hmm, I've since successfully restored from the original tape its entire
contents using rbak.  Now I can probably create a new tape by using wbak
but this seems a bit awkward.

Why do I get an error when when I copy the tape image to a file and
then try to perform an rbak from the tape image I have on disk.
This is the fundamental problem that I do not understand.

It was my understanding that when you use /systest/ssr_util/cptape, that
what you get on disk is an *EXACT* image of the contents of the tape,
if I then take that file and try an rbak from it from disk, or if I copy
it to a new tape and then try the rbak from the tape it fails with the
previously posted errors.

-thanks
-dennis
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