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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? any goof ups like this? Post 302132924 by blowtorch on Tuesday 21st of August 2007 01:55:10 AM
Old 08-21-2007
any goof ups like this?
This thread reminded me of a couple of screwups made by an operator in my old job. The ops used to run OS backups through a script which asked for the path to the tape (/dev/rmt/whatnot). We (the sysadmins) would give these to the ops if a new server was added or the h/w path changed. One Sunday (when else!) one of the ops gave /dev/rmtwhatnot instead of /dev/rmt/whatnot. ufsdump filled up / and we had to run to the datacenter to take console...

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

tcopy

tcopy(1)							   User Commands							  tcopy(1)

NAME

       tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS

       tcopy source [destination]

DESCRIPTION

       The  tcopy  utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
       contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.

       When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a  des-
       tination  is  specified,  tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
       duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.

       The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,

	 example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)

NOTES

       tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of  ioctl(2) requests.

SunOS 5.11							    10 Mar 2000 							  tcopy(1)
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