01-05-2006
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1. AIX
I have 2 UNIX boxes and I need to determine whether or not they possess the same tape drive. What is the hardware command to determine what type of tape drive is present? Thx in advance. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Surdeymon
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to restore my tape backup, when I type "tape status" it gives;
status : ready beginning-of-tape write-protected
soft errors : 0
hard errors : 0
underruns : 3
but... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: alisevA3
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've tape which I've to use to restore data. The problem is that I don't know what type of backup I have on this type. Can someone help me and tell me how can I determine what type of backup is on the tape?
Thanks for your help. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: fraydey
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4. Solaris
I have an HP Proliant DL380 with Intel Processors that I recently loaded Solaris 10 with latest patches on it. I'm trying to do a ufsdump to an HP DAT 40 tape drive via SCSI, but I can't get it to do anything because /dev/rmt is empty. I've tried the following with luck:
touch /reconfigure,... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: cvaughn
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I want to use this command to tar to tape:
tar cf - DIR | compress > `hostname`_`date +%m-%d-%y`.DIR.tar.Z
this of course goes to the FS.
How do I modify this to go directly to tape?
My tape device is /dev/rmt/0
thanks.
Having so many posts you should be familiar using code tags.... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: djehresmann
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6. AIX
Hello,
We need to make a copy of a backup tape, using the 2 tape recorders in IBM 3582 Tape Library
We tried tu use "tcopy", it seems to work fine (no error messages) but we aren't sure if we can rely on it.
my question is how to check if the copy succeded or not, but i also want to know... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: fastlane3000
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7. HP-UX
I have used ioscan -fnC tape and the system identified the tape drive. what is the command to show a listing of what is on the tape? I have used ls /dev/rmt/rmt0 to no avail. can anyone help?
Thanks in advance (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: Randydog
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8. AIX
Folks,
Again a very silly question :D Could someone tell me, how to determine the power family(540, 520, 575, 595 etc) just by looking into the model # info from prtconf/lsconf o/p of the lpar?
I dont want run a search on any search engine to find out the power family or hit IBM website to... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: thisissouvik
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