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Operating Systems AIX Extract data from an AS/400 tape Post 302475066 by rbatte1 on Friday 26th of November 2010 10:12:11 AM

11-26-2010

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A spot of bother

The problem you will have is that although you might be able to get a "file" off the tape, this will be a session in a block. Unix tools are probably not compatible with AS/400 format tapes. It's the same trying to read a cpio tape with tar for example. Do you know if it is written in savefile format, savsys/nonsys format or even as a database export type tape? There are also 3rd party software products that could have been used. Smilie

I regret that you are probably pretty stuck unless you know these things, however if you have a budget for it, there are companies that will attempt to extract the data for you. I have no recomendations because we have avoided using them though a bit of luck, but I know they exist. I don't know the costs, but perhaps one of the DR companies could help you here. If you have a DR contracted site (e.g. SunGard, Iron Mountain, etc.) they may be able to guide you a little more.

Sorry I can't be of more help. Smilie

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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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