07-23-2012
ok, it seems that the previous guy was backing up with cpio directly to a tape device.
You may find infos about the execution and outcomes of the backup with ps -eaf (and looking for the presence of commands related to 'find' or 'cpio', and looking at logs in /var/log/messages or /var/log/cron.
In order to have info about how to manage cpio tape backups, have a look at:
Solaris UNIX Tape Backup And Recovery With tar And cpio Commands
the part showing cpio usage.
tell us how you-re doing
see ya
fra
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rpm2cpio(1) User Commands rpm2cpio(1)
NAME
rpm2cpio - convert Red Hat Package (RPM) to cpio archive
SYNOPSIS
rpm2cpio [file.rpm]
DESCRIPTION
The rpm2cpio utility converts the .rpm file specified as its sole argument to a cpio archive on standard output. (See NOTES.) If no argu-
ment is given, an rpm stream is read from standard input. In both cases, rpm2cpio will fail and print a usage message if the standard out-
put is a terminal. Therefore, the output is usually redirected to a file or piped through the cpio(1) utility.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Converting an rpm file
example% rpm2cpio Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv
CPIO archive found!
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec
31 blocks
Example 2: Converting from standard input
example% rpm2cpio < Device3Dfx-1.1-2.src.rpm | cpio -itv
CPIO archive found!
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2635 Sep 13 16:39 1998, 3dfx.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11339 Sep 27 16:03 1998, Dev3Dfx.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1387 Sep 27 16:04 1998, Device3Dfx-1.1-2.spec
31 blocks
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWrpm |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
cpio(1), attributes(5)
NOTES
rpm2cpio handles versions 3 and 4 RPMs.
SunOS 5.10 20 Aug 2001 rpm2cpio(1)