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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I've got two HP machines running HP-UX 11.31 and would like to remotely backup one server onto another server's tape unit using the cpio command.
The two servers use a secured communication channel, i.e ssh.
Kindly help,
Koketso (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Koketso
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2. SCO
Hi.
I have this old server onto which i needed to list the content of a tape. This is a SCO box (SCO_SV 3.2 5.0.6 i386) and backup was done using cpio.
#tape status
status : ready beginning-of-tape
soft errors : 0
hard errors : 0
underruns : 0
#dtype /dev/rct0
/dev/rct0 ... (5 Replies)
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3. AIX
Hi all,
I'm having a problem here my environment as follows.
AIX 5.3 TL 10 running on a P6 p520 sever with 3 fibre channel cards and Tivoli Storage Manager TSM 5.4 and TS3200 Tape Library with 2 drives and 2 media changers.
My problem as follows smc1 doesn't show up , I ran cfgmgr multiple... (6 Replies)
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4. Solaris
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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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I'm using Bacula as my backup system, with full backups going to an LTO2 tape drive, while differentials and incrementals go to a disk array on my main server, babylon4. The tape drive is currently attached to a separate machine, because babylon4 does not have a SCSI controller, nor a free PCI-X... (0 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I was wondering, If I take a backup using cpio to tape from UNIX, can I extract data on windows box using cpio for windows? Anybody ever do this?
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7. SCO
I'm having problems getting backups working on SCO OpenServer 5.7.
using the following command:
find / -depth -print | cpio -ocvB -O /dev/rct0
some files are backed up then the following error is reported:
Reached end of medium on output.
Device /dev/rct0: Change to part 2 and... (6 Replies)
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8. Red Hat
Thanks for any insights you might have...
I have a RH8 system setup with a DAT drive.
I have a AIX tape that was made using cpio.
Bottom line is I need to read the AIX tape into the RH box.
I was able to do cpio -itv --no-absolute-filenames < /dev/st0 and read the table of contents.
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9. Solaris
Hi all,
I would like to know what would happen if the tape (media) is not placed on the drive and a tar command is executed to backup on the tape.
My problem is that tar command hanged for multiple days instead of throwing the error,
Is it valid behaviour?
I was unable to test the... (4 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I use following command to restore data from my cpio tape archive:
$cpio -icvd < /dev/rct0
But this'll restore all tape contents to the current path, what if I want only selected files from the tape, suppose I want
/home/compdir/home2/Rev83/data/PL/01/*.*
files to be restored... (8 Replies)
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