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Hi,
I need to restore my tape backup, when I type "tape status" it gives;
status : ready beginning-of-tape write-protected
soft errors : 0
hard errors : 0
underruns : 3

but I do not know which type of backup files in my tape (cpio or tar) also I do not know device name like /dev/rStp0 or xStp0

how can I find it ?
thanks
Alice..

List tape drives:

Code:

$ ls -l /dev/rmt

By the way, which platform you are using?

rgrds,
Tayyab

sorry, I'm using SCO 5.0.7.


# ls -l /dev/rmt
total 0
crwxrwxrwx 5 root root 46, 0 Sep 8 2003 0b
crw-rw---- 5 root root 46, 8 Sep 8 2003 0bn
crwxrwxrwx 5 root root 46, 0 Sep 8 2003 Sc0s0
crw-rw---- 5 root root 46, 8 Sep 8 2003 Sc0s0n
crw-rw---- 2 root root 46, 16 Sep 8 2003 Sc0s0r
crwxrwxrwx 3 root root 46,128 Sep 8 2003 Sc0s0x
crwxrwxrwx 5 root root 46, 0 Sep 8 2003 c0s0
crw-rw---- 5 root root 46, 8 Sep 8 2003 c0s0n
crw-rw---- 2 root root 46, 16 Sep 8 2003 c0s0r

Try to list the contents of tape with following commands:

CPIO:

Code:

#cpio -ict < /dev/rStp0

TAR:

Code:

#tar tvf < /dev/rStp0

and post the results.

regrds,
Tayyab

I got the backup with version 3.2.4.2 and I want to restore it version 5.0.7
I get problem because of this ??