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.
Code:
#tape status
status : ready beginning-of-tape
soft errors : 0
hard errors : 0
underruns : 0
#dtype /dev/rct0
/dev/rct0 : cpio old character format
#cpio -ivt < /dev/rct0
1 blocks
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 HPUX
cpio
cpio(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual cpio(4)NAME
cpio - format of cpio archive
DESCRIPTION
The header structure, when the option of is not used (see cpio(1)), is:
When the option is used, the header information is described by:
Longtime and Longfile are equivalent to and respectively. The contents of each file are recorded together with other items describing the
file. Every instance of contains the constant 070707 (octal). The items through have meanings explained in stat(2). The length of the
null-terminated path name including the null byte, is given by
The last record of the archive always contains the name Directories and the trailer are recorded with equal to zero.
It will not always be the case that and correspond to the results of but the values are always sufficient to tell whether two files in the
archive are linked to each other.
When a device special file is archived by HP-UX (using the option), contains a magic constant which is dependent upon the implementation
doing the writing. flags the device file as an HP-UX 32-bit device specifier, and contains the 32-bit device specifier (see stat(2)). If
the option is not present, special files are not archived or restored. Non-HPUX device special files are never restored.
SEE ALSO cpio(1), find(1), stat(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE cpio(4)