Needing to perform a backup of one system to the tape unit on another system. Why, well because the local tape device is stuffed and I desparately need to have a backup completed successfully sooner rather than not at all.
My question is how do I set the below code to allow me to perform the cpio command to write to the everest_backup: server's /dev/nrStp0 device?
Hi i am using HPUX
and i want to know wht is the command to see the listing from the tape device..
i have taken the backup
using cpio -ocvB>/dev/rmt/0m
while seeing the listing using
cpio -itvB</dev/rmt/0m
it is not showing the listing giving message -c option sd be there if i put -c... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a tape backup(DDS2) with cpio. I want to restore just some directory from this device but I do not know the command ??
other question
what is the best cpio command to take more than 8 GB data ?
thanks
Alice (1 Reply)
I'm having problems getting backups working on SCO OpenServer 5.7.
using the following command:
find / -depth -print | cpio -ocvB -O /dev/rct0
some files are backed up then the following error is reported:
Reached end of medium on output.
Device /dev/rct0: Change to part 2 and... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I was wondering, If I take a backup using cpio to tape from UNIX, can I extract data on windows box using cpio for windows? Anybody ever do this?
Thanks. (1 Reply)
Our company purchased a spare HP ML350 server - identical to current one in use to act as minimal downtime replacement should the inevitable happen.
After install of OS 5.0.7 and restore of cpiobackup I get this message:
-: Syntax error: Hostname= $inexpected
The SCO licence policy... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I've got two HP machines running HP-UX 11.31 and would like to remotely backup one server onto another server's tape unit using the cpio command.
The two servers use a secured communication channel, i.e ssh.
Kindly help,
Koketso (1 Reply)
HI all, im new to shell scripting. need your guidence for my script. i wrote one script and is attached here
Im explaining the requirement of script.
AIM: Shell script to run automatically as per scheduled and backup few network devices configurations. Script will contain a set of commands... (4 Replies)
Hi all
The situation is as follows:
We need to take an mksysb image from an AIX 6.1 server. From some reason (irrelevant to this discussion) this server does not have access to a local CD-ROM or a tape drive. We do have another server with AIX 6.1 (but different technology level) which got access... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I want to install GCC gcc-4.8.1-2.src.rpm for AIX 6.1
when I lance my command rpm -i gcc-4.8.1-2.src.rpm
I have this error
unpacking of archive failed on file gcc-4.8.1.tar.bz2: cpio: copy failed - No space left on device
I checked the free space and I am surpise becouse I have... (7 Replies)
Due to budget constraints I have to reinvent an Enterprise backup system in a SPARC (sun4v) Solaris estate (10 & 11). (yep - reinvent wheel, fun but time consuming. Is this wise?! :confused: )
For each filesystem of interest, to try to capture a 'catalog' at the front of each cpio archive (for... (1 Reply)