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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unix 10.2 Backup Problem Post 302162557 by fozzybear on Tuesday 29th of January 2008 09:50:35 AM
Old 01-29-2008
Unix 10.2 Backup Problem

We have an older HP Unix 10.20 system that we rarely ever use anymore. Most of our jobs on it are from 1994 to 2002. Anything after that is on Windows XP. The Unix system was backed up religiously every day. Because of space constraints some of the jobs were removed from the system after a complete tape backup.

About a year ago the tape backup failed internally. (A spring and tray mechanism that ejects the tape). We ordered a new one that was identical to the old and hooked it up and tried to backup. Everything worked ok. The problem we have is now two fold. Any old tapes we have, including the archive stuff removed from the system, doesn't seem to work with this tape drive. It keeps giving the “out of phase” error. I was in the process of trying some of the other backups we have that are even older to find this one particular job when we developed another problem. As soon as I enter the command to restore something off of the tape I get the following message:

“End of Volume”
“If you want to go one, type device/file name when ready”

I have restarted the system and still get this message. It is not even hitting the tape drive or trying the tape.

The command to backup the system originally is:

Find filename | cpio -ovxdB > /dev/dds


The command I am using to restore is:

cpio -ivxdB ‘filename' < /dev/dds

Or

cpio -ivxdBR ‘filename' < /dev/dds

System is using HP Unix 10.20 with DAT tape drive

To summarize problem 1 is an out of phase error on older tapes with new backup drive. Problem 2 developed after man attempts to solve problem 1 and gives the “End of Volume” message after immediately starting restore sequence.

Any help would be appreciated as I am no UNIX or Computer Expert.

Thanks
 

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TAPEFS(1)						      General Commands Manual							 TAPEFS(1)

NAME
32vfs, cpiofs, tapfs, tarfs, tpfs, v6fs, v10fs - mount archival file systems SYNOPSIS
fs/32vfs [ -m mountpoint ] [ -p passwd ] [ -g group ] file fs/cpiofs fs/tapfs fs/tarfs fs/tpfs fs/v6fs fs/v10fs DESCRIPTION
These commands interpret data from traditional tape or file system formats stored in file, and mount their contents (read-only) into a Plan 9 file system. The optional -p and -g flags specify Unix-format password (respectively group) files that give the mapping between the numeric user- and group-ID numbers on the media and the strings reported by Plan 9 status inquiries. The -m flag introduces the name at which the new file system should be attached; the default is /n/tapefs. 32vfs interprets raw disk images of 32V systems, which are ca. 1978 research Unix systems for the VAX, and also pre-FFS Berkeley VAX sys- tems (1KB block size). Cpiofs interprets cpio tape images (constructed with cpio's c flag). Tarfs interprets tar tape images. Tpfs interprets tp tapes from the Fifth through Seventh Edition research Unix systems. Tapfs interprets tap tapes from the pre-Fifth Edition era. V6fs interprets disk images from the Fifth and Sixth edition research Unix systems (512B block size). V10fs interprets disk images from the Tenth Edition research Unix systems (4KB block size). SOURCE
These commands are constructed in a highly stereotyped way using the files fs.c and util.c in /sys/src/cmd/tapefs, which in turn derive substantially from ramfs(4). SEE ALSO
Section 5 passim, ramfs(4). TAPEFS(1)
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