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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Due to budget constraints I have to reinvent an Enterprise backup system in a SPARC (sun4v) Solaris estate (10 & 11). (yep - reinvent wheel, fun but time consuming. Is this wise?! :confused: )
For each filesystem of interest, to try to capture a 'catalog' at the front of each cpio archive (for... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: am115998
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need a hint for reading manpage (I did rtfm really) of cpio to do this task as in the headline described. I want to put all files of a certain type, lets say all *.txt files or any other format. Spread in more than hundreds of subdirectories in one directory I would like to select them and just... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: 1in10
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3. HP-UX
So I ran into a strange problem the other day when using cpio. I'm not really sure this needed to be in an HPUX specific forum, but wasn't sure where else to put it. I'm running HPUX 11.11 PARISC.
I was using cpio to copy a directory and its entire contents from one server, we'll call it... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: paqman
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4. HP-UX
what are cpio.cat.z files??? Can I delete them??? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ldaliosmane
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5. Red Hat
Hi all,
I want to unpack some files .Files and their sizes are:
1. Linux9i_Disk1.cpio -- 500m
2. Linux9i_Disk2.cpio--- 600m
3.Linux9i_Disk3.cpio---- 250m
I used cpio -idmv Linux9i_Disk1.cpio command to unpack the files. But Its taking more time to unpack the files.What could be the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: William1482
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Currently a backup script copies compressed files to tape using cpio command (on AIX 5.2). Recently we've had a compressed file which has gone over 2 GB in size resulting in an error while copying this file onto the tape using cpio.
Any suggestions on relevant workarounds would be much... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dnicky
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7. HP-UX
Hello all ...
I am an Oracle DBA that got stuck in a HP-UX SA role and need some help figuring out a UNIX problem. According to Oracle documentation, I am to issue the following command ...
cpio -idcmv <file_name>
However when I do, the server just hangs there and does nothing til I... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: soestx
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
how can I restore files from a DAT using CPIO ?
If I make :
# mkdir save
# cd /save
# cpio -icumvdB </dev/rct0
Does the archive restore only in the directory /save ?
And how can I restore a specified file from the DAT with the cpio command ? How can I know the size of the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kok
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
Please help me with the extraction of files from a cpio.
what I mean is basically I have received a file from someone i.e
rooh.cpio.
this file rooh.cpio contains various files in it.
I want to know how I can extract the files and copy them to a different directory .
Your quick... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rooh
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
by mistake I deleted all the files in
/usr2/symix/users/wfpsys/tpsc/ directory.
full backup has taken yesterday using "CPIO" command and I am able to view the files from tape also using cpio command.
but i couldn't able to restore back the files. Can you please help me immeditely by giving the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: wipro fluid power
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