A mksysb is not a normal savevg, but also a boot block and some other information. Since you use mksysbs to boot a machine and restore it there need to be more than just a file backup (which a savevg does, even if in an elaborated way).
The savevg part of a mksysb image is the fourth file on the tape, therefore to restore only some files from a mksysb tape use:
This will extract the savevg image which can be restored using restvg. In fact this is simply backup format.
Hi. I have been having problems with restoring from a tape backup. I use the following cpio command:
find / -print | cpio -ouvB > /dev/rStp0
After running this cpio command, the screen will display all files, but when I try to read or restore the tape I get the following error:
Tape input... (1 Reply)
Hi folks,
I have an image backup of an entire file system (Solaris 9 on N240) on a tar file.
How can I use this tar file to retore my system?
Thanks,
omd (1 Reply)
my first question is how to zip the entire directory contents.
second question is can we unzip the same file through windows environment.
please help i need to complete it by EOD (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to tar the entire directory except one directory inside that.
I have used the below command
tar -cvfX test.tar bin/perl bin/
I need to tar all the directories inside the bindirectory except the perl directory
Please help me in solving this :b:
Regards,
Kalai (4 Replies)
Dear All:
we are using backup command on AIX to take backup
as below in this command we also add compress command
ulimit unlimited
cd /apps/oracle
find orcldb orcldata arch |tee /apps/orabkp/ofgl.faysalbank.com-17Jun10Thu-ORCL-DB.bkp.gz.log | backup -ivqf - |gzip -c >... (0 Replies)
Hello,
Few days ago I created both mksysb and savevg archives of rootvg.
How can I restore this rootvg now because the AIX crashed during some software tests. There is no way to start from hdisk0 because most of the system files are deleted (this includes libc.a).
I tough it will be trivial... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I`m a complete newbie to coding, please help with this problem.
I have multiple files in a directory, I have to loop through the contents of each file and extract number of unique isoforms in that file. Each file is tab delimited and only the line with the first parent (column 3)... (1 Reply)
I am looking to write a script that will read the php.ini files on my web host. If the two lines do exist do nothing. If not append two lines to the end of it then move on to the next directory and open the next php.ini file.
I have the beginning of one that was given to me on another web site but... (6 Replies)
Seek help from all experts,
I understand that if I perform a savevg on a VG, and later perform a restvg to another hdisk, I will get back a exact same VG that I perform savevg earlier. It will be identical even on permission bit, owner and group.
However, if I perform a restorevgfiles for a... (3 Replies)
How to get a file 'zlib.h' in an entire directory with an excluded directory specified lives under that starting directory by using find command, as it failed on:
$ find . -name 'zlib.h' -a -ipath 'CHROME.TMP' -prune -o -print
it'll just list entirely up (2 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)