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)
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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)
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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:
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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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