support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tapeheadertype 1853384566)

[Mike Tancsa]

At 01:11 PM 3/26/2009, Jack L. Stone wrote:

>No one has said the dump "L" is broken -- and is NOT but now may mislead
>others just tuning into this thread.


OK, sorry I misunderstood that restore worked from dump files without -L....
I wonder if the original poster just needs to do an fsck on the disk. 
The only time I had dump crap out on me (other than with -L) was on a 
dirty filesystem.

I regularly do stuff like
cd /usr;dump 0f - /usr | (cd /tmp/usr; restore -rf - )
to duplicate partitions

         ---Mike