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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers View tape backup files on RHEL5 Operating System Post 302489341 by optimum on Thursday 20th of January 2011 08:47:24 AM
Old 01-20-2011
view tape backup on RHEL5

Tnx for the post.

I did not use any software to write to the tape. I made use of the tar command to write to the tape on AIX Server.

The backup command used was "tar cvf /dev/rmt2 /mybackup

Now viewing the tape from the RHEL5 (x86) server gives input /output error using the command: tar tvf optimum@10.0.0.1: /dev/rmt2
Error: Cannot open: Input/output error
tar:Error is not recoverable: exiting now
where 10.0.0.1 is the IP address of the AIX server SmilieNote not real IP address)

I also tried the following command: tar tvf /dev/rmt2
Error: tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Hope to get the feedback soonest. Tnx
 

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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 2.4 dds-dd(1)
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