dump | restore fails: unknown tape header type 1853384566

[Mark Kirkwood]

Mikhail T. wrote:
>
> That said, I point out, that for me, dump is not failing (although it 
> did hang this morning). It is the restore, which fails to read dump's 
> output:
>
>    unknown tape header type 213474529
>    abort? [yn] n
>    resync restore, skipped 502 blocks
>    expected next file 54, got 0
>    unknown tape header type -954356454
>    abort? [yn] n
>    resync restore, skipped 29 blocks
>    expected next file 54, got 0
>    unknown tape header type -1754938223
>    abort? [yn] n
>    resync restore, skipped 482 blocks
>    expected next file 54, got 0
>    unknown tape header type -915868704
>    abort? [yn] n
>    resync restore, skipped 29 blocks
>    expected next file 54, got 0
>    unknown tape header type 1790084751
>    abort? [yn] n
>    resync restore, skipped 482 blocks
>    expected next file 54, got 0
>    unknown tape header type 903667267
>    abort? [yn] n
>    ...
>

Is this link any help?

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg197899.html


Other than that, I'd suggest checking the disk(s) with smartmontools to 
try to rule out hardware problems.

regards

Mark