AIX

Hi all,

I need to write on a tape drive with AIX5.3.
How to know the name of this tape and what is the procedure to read and write on this tape?

Regards,
Tovo

you can use the command
lsdev -Cc tape
and this should list you all the available tape drives.

You can write and read from the tape using various commands such as tar, cpio,dd etc.; really depends upon your sepcific requirement.

My tape is rmt0. So my problem is like this, i want to export a database backup from oracle into this drive but I don't know to specify this emplacement. Could you give me the equivalent of this backup script on disk but the backup is in tape?

This is my backup script on disk

exp admin/admin file='/data2/export/exp.dmp' log='/data2/export/exp.dmp' full=y

Does it equivalent with this

exp admin/admin file='/rmt0/export/exp.dmp' log='/rmt0/export/exp.dmp' full=y

Any help,

Regards