dump/restore -- should this work?

[Leonard J. Peirce]

Reply-to: peirce%pernod at gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)



Well, I just installed 3.0 and discovered that either DEC didn't fix the
bug that I reported or they didn't understand what I was trying to explain
to them.  Maybe I'm dumb for doing this; you be the judge.

I do our dumps using multiple dump files on mutilple tapes.  A breakdown
of the dump file and tape boundaries is such:

|------------tape 1------------||------------tape 2------------||-------
|---dump 1---||---dump 2---||---dump 3---||---dump 4---||---dump 5---||---

The problem shows up when I run restore.  restore can find anything in the
dump files 1 and 2.  However, if I try to get to anything in dump file 3
and up, I get the message

	Wrong dump date
	   got: Tue Dec 27 11:18:14 1988
	   wanted: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969

shortly after I insert the second tape.

If I force a new tape to be inserted such that any dump file that will
require more than one tape starts at the beginning of the tape, restore
works fine for everything.

Should dump/restore be able to handle the situation I described above?
I've got my asbestos thermal underwear on so if I'm being stupid, you
can flame me if you want; do it by e-mail, though, so as not to waste
everyone's bandwidth.  Anything constuctive should be posted.
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