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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Do we have a way in solaris to actuallyu check in real time the activity of a tape when it is loaded for backup?
I know mt -f /dev/rmt/0n stat will provide the status. If it's busy, meaning it's currrently on backup mode or someone is using it (fuser -u /dev/rmt/0n)
I wanted to check if the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: lhareigh890
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2. Solaris
I have a T2000 server that is JumpStarted with Solaris 10 from the JumpStart server. Host name and IP address is changed after that. Then we backup the server using FLAR to tape:
root.damas# date; flarcreate -c -t -n "Sol10_cairo_image" -a "engineering@starsolutions.com" -R / /dev/rmt/0n ;... (2 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I have an old Unix system used by a client as a backup server.I installed an Exabyte tape drive and on restarting the server and during POSTs, the system recognizes the tape drive with its scsi id. On running the command devstat -IAF, the system sees the tape drive quite well.
When... (1 Reply)
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4. SCO
Here is the scenario. We have an billing system that ran on SCO 5.0.6. The HP Netserver went dwon, along with SCSI disks. They are unretrievable. I installed an IDE HDD, and reinstalled SCO. I am not too familiar w/ SCO or UNIX, and need to know how to install Tape drive, and how to restore from... (11 Replies)
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5. SCO
I am trying to make a full backup of my system using the cpio command. The Tape Unit is a SCSI DDS.
The process started fine but after about 30 minutes, it just stopped and showed the following message:
1755 Signal 31 - Core dumped
Any idea of what is causing this and how to fix it?
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: zionpc
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I performed backup on tape and I want to append more files to my previous backup on the same backup tape. But before I do that I need to know the backup file size of the first backup I performed so that I know the available size on the backup tape. Can someone help me what command I will use... (0 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi there: I'm new here
Can anyone help me:
I have DS15 Alpha server : Unix 5.1B
Now i need to connect a DLVT VS80 1U Rackmount Tape Drive unit.
What is the exact comman to mount the DLTape IV??
How do i make backuo @ copy file to the tape?
Thanx to all (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: ayzeayem
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8. AIX
Hello everyone
I have a tape with some information that I got
to restore, the tape was made with the fbackup
command in a hp box.
My question is that I have to restore in a Ibm
box, how can I do this ?
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: lo-lp-kl
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9. HP-UX
I am trying to do a restore on a backup tape (DDS2) and am having a little trouble. For one, I dont know how the tape was made, whether is was tar, cpio, dump..etc. Anyone know how to restore a tape without knowing the format of the backup? (5 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
:confused: I'm not really sure about the default backup date & time in our Unix system and I would like to change it to a convienient time...how do I do that? Please help? (1 Reply)
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