08-01-2018
I am making progress, but it looks like I still need some help to get my legacy unix program to work. I have copied most of the files over from the physical to the VM. I left out the /etc and the /var directories entirely, and I think that one of those contain files that I need to make things work.
In my first attempt I did copy the /var directory over - about the third one I copied, and after that my VM would not work correctly. I could not login and so I had to start over again from scratch, so I'm leery about copying that directory over again.
I suspect that I need numerous files from the /etc directory, but I don't think I'm supposed to copy the /etc/conf because I was told not to do that before. My problem is I don't know how to create the cpio archive, or extract it, without including that directory.
At least some of the things I'm missing are the user accounts and groups that are present in the physical system. For our legacy program, we need to have user accounts that have a certain Login Shell, Home Directory and Login Group. The Login Group I'm supposed to use is "genesis" and that is not one of the available groups when I go to create a new user account. So I know these things live somewhere, probably in the /etc directory, because when I restored my complete system from backup tape last year (to the current physical system) all of the user accounts were there.
If anyone has any ideas to help me copy over the remaining files I need from /etc, or if I do need some files from the /var directory, I would appreciate greatly some advice to finish this up. It seems so close!
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AMMT(8) System Manager's Manual AMMT(8)
NAME
ammt - Amanda version of mt
SYNOPSIS
ammt [ -d ] [ -f|-t device ] command [ count ]
DESCRIPTION
Ammt provides just enough of the standard mt command for the needs of Amanda. This is handy when doing a full restore and the standard mt
program has not yet been found.
Ammt also provides access to the Amanda output drivers that support various tape simulations.
See the amanda(8) man page for more details about Amanda. See the OUTPUT DRIVERS section of amanda(8) for more information on the Amanda
output drivers.
OPTIONS
-d Turn on debugging output.
-f device
Access tape device device. If not specified, the TAPE environment variable is used.
-t device
Same as -f.
command count
Which command to issue, and an optional count of operations.
COMMANDS
Each command may be abbreviated to whatever length makes it unique.
eof|weof count
Write count (default: 1) end of file marks (tapemarks).
fsf count
Skip forward count (default: 1) files.
bsf count
Skip backward count (default: 1) files.
asf count
Position to file number count (default: 0) where zero is beginning of tape. This is the same as a rewind followed by a fsf count.
rewind Rewind to beginning of tape.
offline|rewoffl
Rewind to beginning of tape and unload the tape from the drive.
status Report status information about the drive. Which data reported, and what it means, depends on the underlying operating system, and
may include:
ONLINE Indicates the drive is online and ready.
OFFLINE
Indicates the drive is offline or not ready.
BOT Indicates the drive is at beginning of tape.
EOT Indicates the drive is at end of tape.
PROTECTED
Indicates the tape is write protected.
ds Device status.
er Error register.
fileno Current tape file number.
blkno Current tape block number file.
NOTE: many systems only report good data when a tape is in the drive and ready.
AUTHOR
Marc Mengel <mengel@fnal.gov>
John R. Jackson <jrj@purdue.edu>
SEE ALSO
amanda(8)
AMMT(8)