[...]What I am trying to achieve is backing up to tape any folders containing backup files, using compression, not using the current folder as temporary storage (no space for it).
Using pipes you don't need temporary diskspace and tar does not care whether it writes an archive onto disk or onto /dev/rmtX directly. This is all files to Unix. Try to use a combination of commands, pipes and files to backup compressed data onto a tape. Sth. like
Code:
# tar -cBf - /yourdirectory | compress | dd of=/dev/rmt0
B option (blocking) is recommended with pipes. Reverse the syntax to read data from tape again.
Code:
# dd if=/dev/rmt0 | uncompress | tar -xBf -
Quote:
Originally Posted by Browser_ice
All this on an AIX 4.2 who's TAR does not have any compression on it and where I only have 'compress' as compression tool (althougth I said we had gzip, it is not on all our server and I am almost on a deadlock situation when talking to my team lead about copying it to all our servers because he says the license is only on one server !!!)
gzip is open source. What did you mean with "the license is only on one server"?
Hi,
I have a script as follows:
#!/bin/sh
nohup ./my_program >& /dev/null &
However, i get a "Generated or received a file descriptor number that is not valid" whenever I run it.
running the command up in prompt is ok though.
if i change the first line to #!/bin/csh
i get a then:... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
Anyboby knows what is the reason by which the ouput of the command mt -f /dev/rmt0.1 status on AIX does not show the same information that in the rest of platforms UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, ...)?
Then, what command of AIX is similar to mt- f /dev/rmt0.1 status of Solaris? We need it to... (0 Replies)
Hello guys,
on my Red Hat machine the /bin/mt status command gives the output dev/tape: inappropriate ioctl for device. This messages comes up after the Server has been rebooted.
Anybody an idea?
Thx
masterofdesaster (8 Replies)
I want to compress backup files to tape using compress on our AIX 4.2
- Our TAR does not have compression.
- I do not want to use local storage to compress as most of the filesystems are pretty full.
- the only compressing tool we have is 'compress'
- tapes are 5Gb 8mm
I am trying this... (10 Replies)
I only about the principle of filesystems from the very basics on Linux and Windows. But I want to know if it is possible on an AIX 4.2 to create one NFS on a server which is pointing to a tape drive (/dev/rmt0) of another server ?
This is because we several backups to do on a 5 servers that... (5 Replies)
Dear all,
we are running SLES 11 where an iscsi tape library is
attached. To load the tape in a slot we are using for
instance the command #mtx -f /dev/sg1 load 2 which is doing
very well.
But after a server's reboot the device name of the loader is now
/dev/sg4 or /dev/sg5 I mean it is... (1 Reply)
I have an HP Proliant DL380 with Intel Processors that I recently loaded Solaris 10 with latest patches on it. I'm trying to do a ufsdump to an HP DAT 40 tape drive via SCSI, but I can't get it to do anything because /dev/rmt is empty. I've tried the following with luck:
touch /reconfigure,... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I am facing problem with my Tape drive (hp) (/dev/rct0) on SCO Unix version 6.0.0. Sometimes tar works fine but some times it doesnot work and I have to restart the server to get it work. One reboot/shutdown is OK. to solve the problem. Error is "cannot open ... (9 Replies)
Dear all
First of all, my English not so good.
We have p52a (production server) and p52a (test server). Tape drives are VXA2.
When both servers were AIX 5.3, mksysb on production server and restoring to test server was OK.
The production server was AIX 5.3 and recently upgraded to... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Unable to make tape backup, please help.
/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/?mn -I -v -m tar -x inc_entire=vg00
* Creating local directories for configuration files and archive.
======= 04/25/16 16:28:08 IST Started /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery.
(Mon... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: anuragr
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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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