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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Incremental Backup using TAR in sco Openserver 5.0
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thing like hard to hard for windows !!!
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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... (14 Replies)
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tapeinfo
TAPEINFO(1) General Commands Manual TAPEINFO(1)NAME
tapeinfo - report SCSI tape device info
SYNOPSIS
tapeinfo -f <scsi-generic-device>
DESCRIPTION
The tapeinfo command reads various information from SCSI tape drives that is not generally available via most vendors' tape drivers. It
issues raw commands directly to the tape drive, using either the operating system's SCSI generic device ( e.g. /dev/sg0 on Linux,
/dev/pass0 on FreeBSD) or the raw SCSI I/O ioctl on a tape device on some operating systems.
One good time to use 'tapeinfo' is immediately after a tape i/o operation has failed. On tape drives that support HP's 'tapealert' API,
'tapeinfo' will report a more exact description of what went wrong.
Do be aware that 'tapeinfo' is not a substitute for your operating system's own 'mt' or similar tape driver control program. It is intended
to supplement, not replace, programs like 'mt' that access your operating system's tape driver in order to report or set information.
OPTIONS
The first argument, given following -f , is the SCSI generic device corresponding to your tape drive. Consult your operating system's doc-
umentation for more information (for example, under Linux these are generally start at /dev/sg0 under FreeBSD these start at /dev/pass0).
Under FreeBSD, 'camcontrol devlist' will tell you what SCSI devices you have, along with which 'pass' device controls them. Under Linux,
"cat /proc/scsi/scsi" will tell you what SCSI devices you have.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
This program has only been tested on Linux with a limited number of tape drives (HP DDS4, Seagate AIT).
AVAILABILITY
tapeinfo is currently being maintained by Robert Nelson <robertnelson@users.sourceforge.net> as part of the 'mtx' suite of programs. The
'mtx' home page is http://mtx.sourceforge.net and the actual code is currently available there and via SVN from http://source-
forge.net/projects/mtx.
SEE ALSO mt(1),mtx(1),scsitape(1),scsieject(1),loaderinfo(1)
TAPEINFO1.0 TAPEINFO(1)