Howdy,
I'm trying to tar some directories to tape and then extract them from tape on another machine. I was hoping someone could help me with the syntax of the tar commands. Both machines are running Solaris 8.
Need to get all files and directories under the following:
... (6 Replies)
I tried to buckup some oracle archive logs (from a solaris machine) to a remote tape (in a HP-UX machine).
I added the solaris machine name and user to .rhosts, and i tried to use this commande :
tar cvf HPhost:/dev/rmt/0mn /u01/*
The probleme that it gives:
HPhost:/dev/rmt/0mn : No such... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I need to write on a tape drive with AIX5.3.
How to know the name of this tape and what is the procedure to read and write on this tape?
Regards,
Tovo (2 Replies)
I have a zipped file that is ~ 10GB. I tried tarring it off to a tape, but I receive:
tar: <filename> too large to archive. Use E function modifier.
The file is stored on a UFS mount, so I was unable to use ufsdump.
What other options do I have? (I don't have a local file system large... (3 Replies)
I am trying to learn what command I would need to enter to tell my very old tape writer to write a large > 210 MB file from a UNIX box to 3480 tapes. I can get a single tape to write < 210 MB but if the file is large I am not aware of what command to enter to tell it to split the input file across... (0 Replies)
Hello,
This might be a dumb question, but I havent been able to find the answer anywhere.
I currently have a backup script that uses 'tar' to backup some files to tape. I need to add a directory to the backup script, but I want to use 'vdump' to back it up to tape.
So my question is can I... (3 Replies)
I've got a KSH/AIX question that I haven't been able to figure out yet.
I've got a tape archive program that "tar's" data to a tape. After creating the archive, I'd like to somehow verify that the tape is actually good. So, what I'd like to do as a simple "sanity" check that I can read the tape... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to determine if a tape is full because on 2 different tapes, im receiving 2 different kind of errors:
# uname
SunOS
# /bin/tar cvf /dev/rmt/0n /export/home
a /export/home/jerry/wlserver_10.0.tar.gz 28528 tape blocks
tar: write error: unexpected EOF
# mt -f /dev/rmt/0n... (5 Replies)
I've a tape contains a corrupt tar file. I'm using Unix SunOS 5.5.1. So when I run this command : dd if=/dev/rmt/0 of=/tmp/outputfile.tar
I get this error message :
warning /pci@1f, 0/pci@1/pci@1/sunw, isptwo@4/st@4,0 (sty): Error for command : read Error Level: Fatal Requested... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dds-dd
dds-dd(1) General Commands Manual dds-dd(1)NAME
dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.
SYNOPSIS
dds-dd [ -f device ]
DESCRIPTION
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different
size can be read.
The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the
-f device option. The device must be a character special file.
OPTIONS -f device
Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0). Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.
-V,--version
Print the version number of mt-dds to stderr and exit immediately.
--help print some screens of online help with examples through a pager and exit immediately.
EXAMPLES
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | tar ft -
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | cpio -it
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
SEE ALSO
dds2tar(1), dds2index(1), mt(1), tar(1)HISTORY
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
AUTHOR
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo
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