Have you done a successful backup since you changed the tape drive? It may be that the new drive is not set to the same SCSI address as the old one.
You should be able to press <alt><F3> through <alt><f12> to get a new login session.
<alt><f2> will normally switch you to a graphical session that will require <ctrl><alt><f1> to exit from.
Without knowing the script that the backup option on the menu starts, it is difficult to say why it has hung.
Since it is highly unlikely that any programs other than the backup are running it is probably safe to switch to another session and restart the system as root with
You should be able to confirm that the tape drive is correctly configured using:
The default scsi address for the tape is 2.
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Hello guys.
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Incremental Backup using TAR in sco Openserver 5.0
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hi guys
im beginner in unix and have many problem with this.
i have one old machine that Sco unix OpenServer 5.0.7 installed on it.
i wana backup from all partition of hard disk and restore it on another unix machine. how can i do that ?
thing like hard to hard for windows !!!
i only know how... (1 Reply)
hi guys
im beginner in unix and have many problem with this.
i have one old machine that Sco unix OpenServer 5.0.7 installed on it.
i wana backup from all partition of hard disk and restore it on another unix machine. how can i do that ?
thing like hard to hard for windows !!!
i only know how... (14 Replies)