Hi guys,

First I have to say that I'm not Unix expert, I just have medium level experince in Unix scripting and some knowledge with a little of hands on experience of unix administration (Solaris only). I have my plans to move ahead in that field but this is a different story.

I have a client who have Sco Unixware 7.31 and want to do a full system backup. They have Oracle 8i and its backup works properly. I tried first to do a remote backup of their test server to the tape on their live server as test because the client was afraid of making it derictly, he wants to make a test first.

Anyway, I used the ufsdump command hundreds of times, each with different options and arguments and it produces the following error: Bad sblock magic number

I used all even numbers from 2 to 126 for the blocking factor but nothing changes.

They use HP 72 GB tape. The It guy there gave me a paper of file systems: / (type:Vxfs, size:12900), /stand (type:bfs, size:20) etc... but I did not find a vxfdump command on their system.

Ufsdump 0bucf 126 live:/dev/rmt/ctape1 /


Please help and thanks in advance.