The dump/restore routines have a built-in rsh handler for execution on other boxes, and rsh knows how to interpret DEV:. The mt program does not, so that the DEV: syntax means nothing to it.
For those with backup tapes (and I just bought and installed a Seagate one for my FreeBSD box) I want to know how to get the most out of each tape by placing multiple backups on each tape (potentially 20GB). Please correct me if I'm wrong:
First, retension the tape:
# mt retension
next, turn... (3 Replies)
Currently am running the backup command for AIX 5L and see that the tape is rewinding after the completion of the back.
backup -0 -u -f /dev/rmt0 / >> $file 2>&1
What can I do to stop allow the backup to rew after the completion of this job? Any thoughts?
Thanks again. (2 Replies)
Hello all, how would i go about verifying that a tape is backing up data correctly other than restoring the backup. for example, what command would i use to check the tape for errors? Any and all help is appreciated
-Coffee (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am a abit new in AIX system administration field. I want to gather knowledge about backup techniques. As per my knowledge we use Tape archives for taking backups. Can anyone pls explain me in detail abt tape archive? Whether these tape archives come along with the systems or we have to... (1 Reply)
Hi, I am currently looking at how we can optimize and speed up our backups here. I am just a beginner operator and our system admin hardly knows anything (long term interim).
There is this particular TAR backup of DB backups that for a 10.5Gb amount of files, it takes 5 hours to do the backup on... (6 Replies)
It may seam a bit odd that I ask this question.
After you have done your backups to tapes, do you verify the content of the tapes ?
- never
- sometimes
- always
The reason I am asking is that here in the office, all the backup procedures include verifying the content of the tapes (no... (5 Replies)
Hello all. UNIX dummy here :p
Anyway I was trying to do a full backup of my work server SUN SPARC SERVER 1000 machine (yes we are actually using this dinosaur). I did the ufsdump comand and everything was fine until I got to the dumping of regular files. During the run I got the following... (7 Replies)
Hello folks. I have the following problem:
I'm trying to create a tape backup of a list of files on a 10 year old server, running SCO Openserver 5.0.5 (the tape drive is a Seagate STD224000N, connected as a SCSI drive).
I then want to restore the contents of this tape onto a new server... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I need to be able to encrypt LTO tapes that our AIX writes to for backups.
We have a tape library (IBM TS3100) that our AIX host uses to write to LTO6 tapes. We then take those tapes off-site and restore to another AIX system using a 3580-H6S LTO6 tape drive - this is a very simple... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
amverify
AMVERIFY(8) System Manager's Manual AMVERIFY(8)NAME
amverify - check an Amanda tape for errors
SYNOPSIS
amverify config [ slot [ runtapes ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Amverify reads an Amanda format tape and makes sure each backup image can be processed by amrestore and, if possible, the appropriate
restore program (e.g. tar).
Amverify runs amrestore on each file of the tape and pipes the output to a restore program (if available) with an option to create a cata-
logue of the backup. The catalogue itself is discarded. Only the success or failure of the operation itself is reported.
If the backup image cannot be processed by the restore program, e.g. if it was written on a different operating system, the image is sent
through dd to /dev/null. This still determines if the tape is readable, but does not do any internal consistency check on the image.
If config is set up to use a tape changer, the slot argument may be used to choose the first tape to process. Otherwise, the current slot
is used.
The runtapes configuration parameter determines how many tapes are processed unless it is specified on the command line.
See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda.
AUTHOR
Axel Zinser <fifi@icem.de>
SEE ALSO amrestore(8), amanda(8), amverifyrun(8)AMVERIFY(8)