You will need a suitable tape drive, like a 3490 tape library for instance. Connect this to your system, run
and you will see one (or several) devices, "rmt0" (, "rmt1", ...) etc..
Use - depending on what was used to write to the tape - standard "tar" or "dd" with "/dev/rmt<n>" as input device (or whatever else is able to read your format) to read from it and "tctl [-f <device>]" to control the tape operation.
For instance, to rewind and eject the tape loaded in "/dev/rmt1":
Hi,
I am an newbie to AIX.
Recently, I being assigned to do an mksysb restoration at our DR site.
It always encounter "Out of Space" during restoration, this is even when I restored to 4x146GB HDD.
Even though, on production, it only need 2x146GB HDD for the rootvg.
What is the problem, I... (19 Replies)
Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@a/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@1/disk@0,0:a File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_147440-01 64-bit
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WARNING: system call missing from bind file... (8 Replies)
Hi there,
Alright I have this line that I'm working with (bash programming):
mysql -u username -pHASH ${args} < /home/site/backups/site.${args}.sql
I get this error on that line:
./restore.sh: line 51: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
./restore.sh: line 51: `mysql -u... (5 Replies)
I am trying to restore opt on my server.
my issue is, all the partitions are saved into the same back up tape.
what is the exact command to just restore /opt for example, supposing c0t0d0s7 is the partition for /opt
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Hi,
I just want to ask whether anyone has experience on restoring mksysb backup in NIM. We have taken the mksysb backup and the SPOT has been configured on NIM also. I just want to know the checkpoints before doing this. Is there any checkpoints we need to do? Do we need to unmirrorvg? This... (12 Replies)
Can anybody help me ? ?
Previously data was taken multi volume LTO Tape backup in Red hat Linux by following command : tar -cvf /dev/rmt/tps6d7v -b 1000 -M filenames , now i try to Restore it in SELS9 by following command : tar -xvf /dev/st1 -b 1000 -M filenames , it extracts only part of the... (0 Replies)
i have 2 hardisk. Hardisk A and Hardisk B.
i have backup the oracle folder from hardisk A to hardisk B c0t0d0s4/oracle.
If i want to restore , what is the command and
what do i need to do ?
urgent help needed.
Thanks for your quick reply . (1 Reply)
Dear All,
I am using sun OS server and performing weekly backup on a tape DDS2 for log files for the past 7 days, the log file sizes are ranging between 1 - 2 G......When i want to restore a specific file from the tape, i have to restore the whole files from the tape by using the command (tar... (1 Reply)
Hello Guys,
Can before and after snapshots be used to verify successful filesystem restoration?
snapshots will be created using fssnaps and restoration is thru legato restore?
Any ideas on this? or any other ways I could verify that restoration is good?
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