Hello,

We've recently had a multiple hardrive failure in our legacy HP9000. Now the drives are repaired and the filesystems are recreated, I went to restore the last of the database tables from our dds3 backup, but cannot. Here's what's going on: BTW, I'm an absolute novice w/ HP-UX

The Backup Script:

/usr/sbin/fbackup -f /dev/rmt/0m -g /file.list -y -v > backup.log 2>&1&
cd /new/
find . -mtime +15 -name '*.log' -exec rm {} \;
find . -mtime +10 -name '*.rrr' -exec rm {} \;
cd /home/programs/ingres/files
cat /dev/null > errlog.log

The rmt directory:


# ls /dev/rmt/
0m 0mn c2t0d0BEST c2t0d0BESTn stape_config
0mb 0mnb c2t0d0BESTb c2t0d0BESTnb


The results of frecover: (I put the third tape of 3 in the drive) tried the others as well . . .

# frecover -f /dev/rmt/0m -xov -i /new
frecover(5409): unable to read volume header
frecover(5418): not an fbackup volume; unable to read volume header
frecover(2105): did not find expected file marker
frecover(5412): Do you wish to try to salvage this volume? [yes no] no
frecover(5411): Do you wish to try a different volume? [yes no] no
frecover(5414): abort selected
frecover(4301): /new not recovered from backup media



I am trying to recover the directories /new and /new1 but it appears that either my syntax is wrong, all three of my backup up tapes are bad, or . . ?

I've cleaned the drive numerous times and tried a different DDS3 drive with same results. I even tried to restore it using the SAM . . . with the same results as above for frecover.

I have tried to list the contents of the tape:

# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0mn new
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0m
Tar: tape read error
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0m new
# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
# mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
fsf 1 failed: I/O error

Any guidance/advice for Sysadmin with little experience in the RISCier field? Thanks in advance.