11-16-2005
Tape error.
Hi,
I am new to unix. We use Travan tapes to backup. The tape drive on two of our machines was working fine till this morning till we used the cleaning tape. We put the cleaning tape on the first machine, it got struck so we have to pull it out. Since then when we do the tar command we are getting the can not open /dev/rct0 error. The same is the case with the other machine. Could someone please tell me how to debug this error...Thanks a lot...
Regards,
Krk123
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tcopy(1) User Commands tcopy(1)
NAME
tcopy - copy a magnetic tape
SYNOPSIS
tcopy source [destination]
DESCRIPTION
The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.
When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a des-
tination is specified, tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.
The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,
example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)
NOTES
tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of ioctl(2) requests.
SunOS 5.10 10 Mar 2000 tcopy(1)