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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Cpio Restore didnt go to plan Post 302979083 by Redstar on Tuesday 9th of August 2016 05:00:05 AM
Old 08-09-2016
Cpio Restore didnt go to plan
Hello folks, one of the RAID drives in our SCO system crashed recently and being hot swap it was replaced.
Problem was that on boot it stops at:

Checking protected password and protected subsystem databases....

First I did
Code:
#authck -a

and checked
Code:
/etc/auth/system/ttys

as per instructions in a previous thread but no go.

So I did a CPIO restore at "/" in single user mode
Code:
cpio -icudvmlB -I /dev/rct0 u/\*

Problem was, it must have restored at the wrong spot as
Code:
/dev/root

is now 100% used.
The crontab points to a backup script which has the backup as
Code:
cd /
find . -depth -print | cpio -ocvB -O /dev/rct0

This is a SCO system from 15 years ago (I'm away from the system at the moment, cant tell you what version) that is ignored in the corner - until something goes wrong.

Question 1:
I tried doing a find search on the drive to locate the wrongly located files but to no avail, so where did they go?

Question 2:
What did I do wrong and what is the correct sequence/command to fix my problem?

Question 3:
Is "/" different in single user mode compared to multi user?

I was a SCO hardware engineer 20+ years ago, but that was a lifetime ago and I think I have forgotten more than I remember.

Cheers
Last edited by rbatte1; 08-09-2016 at 06:47 AM.. Reason: Adjusted backup code, assuming it's one block.
 

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locale::codes::langfam

Locale::Codes::LangFam(3pm)				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide			       Locale::Codes::LangFam(3pm)

NAME

       Locale::Codes::LangFam - standard codes for language extension identification

SYNOPSIS

	  use Locale::Codes::LangFam;

	  $lext = code2langfam('apa');		       # $lext gets 'Apache languages'
	  $code = langfam2code('Apache languages');    # $code gets 'apa'

	  @codes   = all_langfam_codes();
	  @names   = all_langfam_names();

DESCRIPTION

       The "Locale::Codes::LangFam" module provides access to standard codes used for identifying language families, such as those as defined in
       ISO 639-5.

       Most of the routines take an optional additional argument which specifies the code set to use. If not specified, the default ISO 639-5
       language family codes will be used.

SUPPORTED CODE SETS

       There are several different code sets you can use for identifying language families. A code set may be specified using either a name, or a
       constant that is automatically exported by this module.

       For example, the two are equivalent:

	  $lext = code2langfam('apa','alpha');
	  $lext = code2langfam('apa',LOCALE_LANGFAM_ALPHA);

       The codesets currently supported are:

       alpha
	   This is the set of three-letter (lowercase) codes from ISO 639-5 such as 'apa' for Apache languages.

	   This is the default code set.

ROUTINES

       code2langfam ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       langfam2code ( NAME [,CODESET] )
       langfam_code2code ( CODE ,CODESET ,CODESET2 )
       all_langfam_codes ( [CODESET] )
       all_langfam_names ( [CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangFam::rename_langfam  ( CODE ,NEW_NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangFam::add_langfam  ( CODE ,NAME [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangFam::delete_langfam  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangFam::add_langfam_alias  ( NAME ,NEW_NAME )
       Locale::Codes::LangFam::delete_langfam_alias  ( NAME )
       Locale::Codes::LangFam::rename_langfam_code  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangFam::add_langfam_code_alias  ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
       Locale::Codes::LangFam::delete_langfam_code_alias  ( CODE [,CODESET] )
	   These routines are all documented in the Locale::Codes::API man page.

SEE ALSO

       Locale::Codes
	   The Locale-Codes distribution.

       Locale::Codes::API
	   The list of functions supported by this module.

       http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-5/id.php
	   ISO 639-5 .

AUTHOR

       See Locale::Codes for full author history.

       Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).

COPYRIGHT

	  Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Sullivan Beck

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.18.2							    2013-11-04					       Locale::Codes::LangFam(3pm)
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