Thu, 08 Jan 2004 @ 21:27 +0100, Manuel Bouyer said:

> > I have no idea what to do with that.
> > 
> > I did run it and look around, but I'd cause more damage than help.
> > 
> > I ran a restore of a dump from last year from a 4mm DDS2 tape, and it
> > worked fine.
> 
> Over the same drive, or a different one ?

The tape was created on a Seagate 4mm DDS2... can't remember the name.
The drive I restored from is an old Archive Python tape robot.

The Seagate drive appears to be dead as it won't read a thing.

I've actually taken the Python apart when one of the capstan drives came
apart.  Glued it back, and its been running for 2 more years.

But, I really need something else.

> > I'd like to recover the last year of updates, but is it feasible to
> > do this with fsdb?
> 
> I think it is but I'm not sure exactly how ...

I decided to just endure the pain of a few missing files.

I recovered my CVS repository manually today, and nothing else important
is missing.

I'd have everything if the most recent backup had not failed.  It isn't
a tape error, its an archive error of some kind.

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