Please note that using the command cpio to back up to tape was successful. Used the below command:
I'm trying to restore from tape of a particular file and having issues. Below is the command to restore from tape:
Please assist if the above command to restore is correct. I tried using it but it does not restore. I was in the /bkp directory to do the restore.
Using different block sizes when creating a cpio archive and when reading that cpio archive is almost always going to fail.
SCO/Caldera Unixware 711
Hi Friends,
I have a cpio file which was created using relative pathnames.
the relative pathname is users/data/*
I want to restore these files to a different directory with cpio.
An example restore directory is /home/suresh
Is this possible ?
Can someone... (4 Replies)
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)
Hi all,
I am still working on my mksysb restore.
My latest issue is during an alt_disk_install from tape I got the following error after all the data had been restored.
0505-143 alt_disk_install: Unable to match mksysb level 5.2.0 with any
available boot images. Please correct this... (0 Replies)
Our company purchased a spare HP ML350 server - identical to current one in use to act as minimal downtime replacement should the inevitable happen.
After install of OS 5.0.7 and restore of cpiobackup I get this message:
-: Syntax error: Hostname= $inexpected
The SCO licence policy... (4 Replies)
Hi,
under unix aix , i had to put a catostrophic patch from an editor ...
i had first made a cpio backup
connected root
cd /application
find . –print | cpio –ocvBm > /sauvegarde/sauvegarde.cpio
Does someone know the command to restore my cpio backup ?
thanks in advandce to everyone
... (7 Replies)
Hello Every one,
I want to back up all passwd files to /xyz/passfiles.cpio
and Then restore them to /abc directory.
Here is what I wrote:
find / -name passwd | cpio -oc > /tmp/passwd.cpio
and to restore
cd abc
cpio -ium < /tmp/passwd.cpio
I can not find the files restored to /abc... (2 Replies)
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 #authck -a and checked /etc/auth/system/ttys as per instructions in a... (7 Replies)
Due to budget constraints I have to reinvent an Enterprise backup system in a SPARC (sun4v) Solaris estate (10 & 11). (yep - reinvent wheel, fun but time consuming. Is this wise?! :confused: )
For each filesystem of interest, to try to capture a 'catalog' at the front of each cpio archive (for... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: am115998
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cpio
CPIO(1L)CPIO(1L)NAME
cpio - copy files to and from archives
SYNOPSIS
cpio {-o|--create} [-0acvABLV] [-C bytes] [-H format] [-M message] [-O [[user@]host:]archive] [-F [[user@]host:]archive]
[--file=[[user@]host:]archive] [--format=format] [--message=message] [--null] [--reset-access-time] [--verbose] [--dot] [--append]
[--block-size=blocks] [--dereference] [--io-size=bytes] [--quiet] [--force-local] [--rsh-command=command] [--help] [--version] < name-list
[> archive]
cpio {-i|--extract} [-bcdfmnrtsuvBSV] [-C bytes] [-E file] [-H format] [-M message] [-R [user][:.][group]] [-I [[user@]host:]archive] [-F
[[user@]host:]archive] [--file=[[user@]host:]archive] [--make-directories] [--nonmatching] [--preserve-modification-time] [--numeric-uid-
gid] [--rename] [-t|--list] [--swap-bytes] [--swap] [--dot] [--unconditional] [--verbose] [--block-size=blocks] [--swap-halfwords] [--io-
size=bytes] [--pattern-file=file] [--format=format] [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no-preserve-owner] [--message=message] [--force-local]
[--no-absolute-filenames] [--sparse] [--only-verify-crc] [--to-stdout] [--quiet] [--rsh-command=command] [--help] [--version] [pattern...]
[< archive]
cpio {-p|--pass-through} [-0adlmuvLV] [-R [user][:.][group]] [--null] [--reset-access-time] [--make-directories] [--link] [--quiet] [--pre-
serve-modification-time] [--unconditional] [--verbose] [--dot] [--dereference] [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no-preserve-owner] [--sparse]
[--help] [--version] destination-directory < name-list
DESCRIPTION
GNU cpio is fully documented in the texinfo documentation. To access the help from your command line, type
info cpio
The online copy of the documentation is available at the following address:
http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual
CPIO(1L)