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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tape backup help needed
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.025717.9746@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 02:57:17 GMT
References: <8450@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <8450@shlump.nac.dec.com> simon@hpstek.dec.com (Curiosier and curiosier...) writes:
>
>Yesterday I posted the original article but today it turned out the the 
>front of it got axed off by dumb software.  Here is the re-post.
>
>    I was installing a new hard disk.  First made a backup of the old 
>    on a tape (Irwin).  Then, doing a restore, got a message: "Cannot 
>    create directory ZMODEM, no files will be restored".  After the rest of
>    the data was restored, the directory tree looked very strange.  
>    Everything was right, except one subdirectory.  Instead of
>

[stuff deleted]

>
>    I am afraid of using the tape drive for the back-ups until I find out 
>    what was happening.
>
>    Regards,
>    Leo
>


Did you do an image or file by file backup? Most of these types of tape drives
state very clearly (ie RTFM) that an image backup CAN ONLY be restored to the
VERY SAME disk that the image was taken from.

If you want to backup and restore to a different disk, usr file by file mode.


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