I have a .tar file consisting of text and binary files. I ftp'd the .tar file using ftp binary.
when I did the pax to unwind the tar file, I noiticed that the text files were encoded in binary.
**How would I retain the text characteristics of the ascii text files, while also keeping the... (11 Replies)
I am having trouble with the pax command on Saris. I want to sue it to untar a file to a different directory. So if mytar.tar conatins files that were in /u02/mydir/mydir2/mydir3, I want to untar them to /export/home/mydir.
An example I have is:
pax -r -s... (2 Replies)
Hi, I am using AIX 5.3.0.0 and Ultrium LTO3 Tape Drive as rmt1. I have backup some of my database file using command "pax" as
pax -wvf /dev/rmt1 "./data01/abc.dmp"
But when I tried to read the file from tape by issuing the command,
pax -vf /dev/rmt1
The error message displayed as
pax:... (4 Replies)
we created a TAR file ( souce /opt/oracle/10.2) . If we want to extract it diff directory say (/tmp) . I know we can use pax to do this .but inside TAR we have absolute path ref . if we pax does it replaces absolute path in TAR ?
Thanks (1 Reply)
Dear all experts online,
In my environment of AIX 5300-07, I am currently using "pax" command to backup all filesystems that I need to backup and it will take me around 4 hours time with LTO3 tape drive.
When I need to verify the tape after backup, I am using "pax" command to list all files in... (2 Replies)
Dear all experts,
I would like to know if a pax command backup of AIX files can be restored into Linux environment run in Wintel server?
Currently I have a Full database backup using "pax" command in AIX box(IBM pSeries), the new management decison of the new server is on Wintel server which is... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have tar ball "data.tar" which consists of many files from different directories.
If I untar a file using following command, it will untar file to location /input/data
tar -xvf data.tar /input/data/abc.txt
I want the file to be untar in current directory and or any other... (3 Replies)
I have just switched my production server from using the br_backup script that uses fbackup to the fs_backup script that uses PAX. Things seem to work fine and test restores are successful, but I'm not getting a daily e-mail with the backup results that I used to get from the br_backup script. ... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a tape backup (it was made using dd/tar) and I want to use dd/pax to restore tape to disk, in IBM AIX 7.2.
I can restore from tape using example below without issues.
#/usr/bin/dd bs=128k if=/dev/rmt0 | /usr/bin/pax -r -v /home/c3rb3rus/utils/*
USTAR format archive... (6 Replies)
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archive_write_set_format_shar_dump
ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT(3)NAME
archive_write_set_format_cpio, archive_write_set_format_pax, archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted, archive_write_set_format_shar,
archive_write_set_format_shar_dump, archive_write_set_format_ustar -- functions for creating archives
LIBRARY
Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)
SYNOPSIS
#include <archive.h>
int
archive_write_set_format_cpio(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_pax(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_shar(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_shar_dump(struct archive *);
int
archive_write_set_format_ustar(struct archive *);
DESCRIPTION
These functions set the format that will be used for the archive.
The library can write POSIX octet-oriented cpio format archives, POSIX-standard ``pax interchange'' format archives, traditional ``shar'' ar-
chives, enhanced ``dump'' shar archives that store a variety of file attributes and handle binary files, and POSIX-standard ``ustar'' ar-
chives. The pax interchange format is a backwards-compatible tar format that adds key/value attributes to each entry and supports arbitrary
filenames, linknames, uids, sizes, etc. ``Restricted pax interchange format'' is the library default; this is the same as pax format, but
suppresses the pax extended header for most normal files. In most cases, this will result in ordinary ustar archives.
RETURN VALUES
These functions return ARCHIVE_OK on success, or ARCHIVE_FATAL.
ERRORS
Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.
SEE ALSO tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)BSD February 2, 2012 BSD