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Chapter 8: Troubleshooting
7. If you have a remote (network) tape device, when no tape device is found, or when
you answered “No” to the question in the previous step, you see this message:
Remote or local restore ([r]emote, [l]ocal):
• If you answer “remote,” you have chosen to restore from the network, and you
must know the hostname, tape device name, and IP address of the remote
system. You also need to know the IP address of your system. The IP address,
such as 192.0.2.1, always has four components separated by periods.
• If you answer “local,” you have chosen a tape device that is connected to your
system, and you are prompted to enter the name of the tape device.
8. When you see the following message, removethe CD-ROM, insert your most recent
full backup tape, then press Enter.
Insert the first backup tape in the drive, then press <Enter>,
[q]uit (from recovery), [r]estart:
There is a pause while the program retrieves several files from the tape describing
the system state at the time the backup was made. Then you see this message:
Erase /x filesystem and make new one (y,n)? [n]
It prompts you for every filesystem that was known at the time of the backup.
Read the following to decide whether to answer y or n.
• If you answer n for no, the system tries to salvage as many files as possible.
Then it uses your backup tape to replace the files it could not salvage. Usually
you should answer no, especially if your backup tape is not very recent. If the
file systems were badly damaged, or the backup was from a different level
operating system, you may need to answer yes.
• If you answer y for yes, the system erases the filesystem and copies everything
from your backup tape to the disk. The system loses any information on that
filesystem that you created between now and when you made your backup
tape.
9. You see this message:
Starting recovery from tape.
After two or three minutes, the names of the files that the system is copying to the
disk start scrolling.
After the first tape is complete, if it is the first in a set, you are prompted for the
second tape, and so on.