I have this old server onto which i needed to list the content of a tape. This is a SCO box (SCO_SV 3.2 5.0.6 i386) and backup was done using cpio.
I am not familiar with cpio and sco...but I remember doing a restore waaaayyyyy long ago and these are the commands i used to prep and list the content
If i remembered correctly, the cpio -ivt would "list" the tape content. But all i get is the "1 blocks" answer...
Is it, because there is nothing on the tape? Any other way i can "list" the content?
Hi i am using HPUX
and i want to know wht is the command to see the listing from the tape device..
i have taken the backup
using cpio -ocvB>/dev/rmt/0m
while seeing the listing using
cpio -itvB</dev/rmt/0m
it is not showing the listing giving message -c option sd be there if i put -c... (1 Reply)
HI All
I have created the bootable recovery tape using the ignite command make_tape_recovery, I need help for the command to list the content recorded in that tape.
Regards,
Gege:confused: (1 Reply)
Hi,
I use following command to restore data from my cpio tape archive:
$cpio -icvd < /dev/rct0
But this'll restore all tape contents to the current path, what if I want only selected files from the tape, suppose I want
/home/compdir/home2/Rev83/data/PL/01/*.*
files to be restored... (8 Replies)
I apologize in advance if someone else has posted a similar question and I overlooked the answer in the forums, so here goes.
i'm using cpio to retrieve data from a tape and the switches i'm using are
cpio -AvicdumkB -I/dev/rct0
now the data i'm trying to restore is a specific couple of... (5 Replies)
Thanks for any insights you might have...
I have a RH8 system setup with a DAT drive.
I have a AIX tape that was made using cpio.
Bottom line is I need to read the AIX tape into the RH box.
I was able to do cpio -itv --no-absolute-filenames < /dev/st0 and read the table of contents.
... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I was wondering, If I take a backup using cpio to tape from UNIX, can I extract data on windows box using cpio for windows? Anybody ever do this?
Thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I've got two HP machines running HP-UX 11.31 and would like to remotely backup one server onto another server's tape unit using the cpio command.
The two servers use a secured communication channel, i.e ssh.
Kindly help,
Koketso (1 Reply)
Hi, AIXers :)
Recently i'm playing around with cpio command, when i try to list out content from LTO2 Tape media using
command:
#cpio -itvc < /dev/rmt1
it's stopped at particular path
100777 root 1042591 Mar 24 10:09:05 2012 /home/uv/bin/usd
and there was an error thrown out:
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
We are taking our filesystem backup having size of 1.3 TB on LTO5 catridges using the following command
find * -print|backup -ivf '/dev/rmt0' '-U'
i.e backup byname and it took about 6.5 Hours to complete When we are listing same tape contents using the following command
restore... (1 Reply)
Hi,
We have backup on LTO-3 tape it was taken from windows via windows backup utility,
now the issue is that we want to list the content of tape in aix 6.1. Kindly help.
Regards
Salman (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: salmanraza
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backup_apropos
BACKUP_APROPOS(8) AFS Command Reference BACKUP_APROPOS(8)NAME
backup_apropos - Displays each help entry containing a keyword string
SYNOPSIS
backup apropos -topic <help string> [-help]
backup ap -t <help string> [-h]
DESCRIPTION
The backup apropos command displays the first line of the online help entry for any backup command that has in its name or short
description the string specified by the -topic argument.
To display the syntax for a command, use the backup help command.
OPTIONS -topic <help string>
Specifies the keyword string to match, in lowercase letters only. If the string is more than a single word, surround it with double
quotes (" ") or other delimiters.
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.
OUTPUT
The first line of a command's online help entry names it and briefly describes its function. This command displays the first line for any
backup command where the string specified with the -topic argument is part of the command name or first line.
EXAMPLES
The following example lists all backup commands that include the word "tape" in their names or short descriptions:
% backup apropos tape
labeltape: label a tape
readlabel: read the label on tape
scantape: dump information recovery from tape
status: get tape coordinator status
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
None
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OpenAFS 2012-03-26 BACKUP_APROPOS(8)