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Hickd8,

I tried all of your recommendations to no avail.I think the backups might be corrupted. I have an alternative solution now that doesn't involve restoring the backup files. I am just going...

Well thats cool. I found out the block size is 126.

Partition3.dmp tried to dump on a drive that doesn't exist on this system (c1t0d0s3).

# ls -l
total 18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other ...

Good suggestion.... I was able to read the file list and there were only one directory in partition3.dmp. It threw an error that partial block read was: 53247 should be 64512. I had the same error...

Sorry for the delayed reply. Another system failed yesterday, but at least I knew how to fix that one hahaha.

I tried every blocking factor from 512 to 10240 in 512 increments. I also tried...

Thanks again for your continued help.

I tried to list the files by changing the blocking factor all the way up to 81920. For some reason it cannot find the file dump list.


# cd /mnt/
# ls...

Have you ever seen an error like this before?

# ufsrestore tf /mnt/partition0.dmp
resync restore, skipped 265154 blocks
Cannot find file dump list

# ufsrestore xf /mnt/partition0.dmp
resync...

Hi Hicksd8,

Thanks again for all the great info. As far as experience level, I had never worked with Solaris or Unix servers up until last week. What I know is what I've learned from Google and...

Jim and Hickd8,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I have continued to work on it with no success.

Jim- Thanks for the tip about the file command. You were correct and the .dmp files are in...

Hello,

I was handed the job of restoring a drive on a old Sun Micro server running Solaris 8. The person who created the backup files told me I would need to use UFSrestore to restore the drive. I...