Xref: utzoo comp.unix.misc:790 comp.unix.admin:764 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!sicsun!disuns2!shawn From: shawn@litsun8.epfl.edu (Shawn Koppenhoefer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.admin Subject: backup difficulties Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 11:18:18 GMT Sender: news@disuns2.epfl.ch Reply-To: shawn@litsun.epfl.ch Distribution: comp Organization: Laboratoire d'Informatique Technique Lines: 23 DUMP: Date of this level 9 dump: Mon Jan 7 12:00:02 1991 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /u/giraud to /dev/rst8 DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. When I to a "dump f /dev/rst8 /u/username " I get the above error message. What's my problem? An mt -f /dev/rst8 status yields the following: Wangtek QIC-150 tape drive: sense key(0x0)= no sense residual= 0 retries= 0 file no= 0 block no= 0 -- _________________________________________________________________ | shawn@litsun.epfl.ch -.- KLEIN BOTTLE FOR SALE ...\####### | Shawn Edwin Koppenhoefer \_/ ... enquire within \###### | LIT-EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federal De Lausanne)_______\#####