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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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
tcopy
tcopy(1) User Commands tcopy(1)NAME
tcopy - copy a magnetic tape
SYNOPSIS
tcopy source [destination]
DESCRIPTION
The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.
When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a des-
tination is specified, tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.
The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,
example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)NOTES
tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of ioctl(2) requests.
SunOS 5.10 10 Mar 2000 tcopy(1)